The Formula 1 season returns, which starts this coming weekend with the Bahrain GP. It will take place at the Sakhir circuit. On that same circuit, the best drivers in the world have just enjoyed three days of pre-season testing to prepare for a championship with a radical change in the rules.
According to the results of the tests, Red Bull has been the fastest and paints as favorites for the 2022 season. Ferrari has good signs in its car, while Mercedes has suffered serious “porpoising” problems; which have everyone on edge the team and fans of Lewis Hamilton.
It will be time to see the reality after a few showed all their cards in the preseason. Then, from Friday with free practice 1, we will have to be very attentive to the performance of the cars; also taking into account the positions that each team occupies.
Format changes
Formula 1 changes its weekend format for this 2022 season, compressing its activities into just three days. Thus, the press conferences for the drivers on Thursday will move to Friday. Those for the team managers will be held on Saturday instead of Friday.
The Sakhir circuit is 5,412 kilometers long and has 15 curves (9 right and 6 left). As well as, it has important straights that could serve as an advantage for the teams that have their cars up to date, but also great braking that makes it be classified as a low-medium speed track, and with a medium aerodynamic load.
Now, throughout the inclusion of this circuit in the World Motoring Championship, we have that, after his controversial victory in 2021, Lewis Hamilton is the so-called King of Bahrain, since he has managed to achieve 5 victories in this circuit in his professional career, one more than Sebastian Vettel, who has 4 victories and two more than the Spanish Fernando Alonso who has 3 victories. Of the active drivers, no one else has managed to win the Bahrain GP (not even the current world champion, Max Verstappen), although Sergio Pérez did do it there, but at the so-called 2020 Sakhir GP, on the outside circuit.
Next, we will be able to observe the drivers that will race in this Bahrain GP, as well as the betting odds for each of them.
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