ROUND 4: 🇧🇭 Bahrain


FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 2004
  • Number of laps: 57
  • Circuit Length: 5.412 km
  • Race Distance: 308.238 km
  • Lap record: 1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)
  • 2024 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map


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    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      Probably hidden because they’re having problems with Russell’s transponder.

      Edit: now they showed it again in lap 44 you can see Russell’s time was not changing while everyone’s time was.

      • @[email protected]
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        012 days ago

        I believe they switched to the old-school method of “gaps updated when passing the starting line” at that point, since overtakes were not being shown in the timing tower

  • Coelacanth
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    012 days ago

    God Merc has bungled Kimi’s race here. Surely they’d prefer track position instead of the extra stop at the safety car?

  • @[email protected]
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    012 days ago

    Interesting to see how one faulty timing sensor/transmitter can impact:

    • the live timing of the TV broadcast
    • the DRS activation mechanism of your own car
    • the DRS activation mechanism of the following car

    Because they all rely on that data

    • @[email protected]
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      012 days ago

      Yeah, that’s not really acceptable, especially not for the following car. Because teams will know this and use this. By accident ofcourse…

    • @[email protected]
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      012 days ago

      They have to choose something other than medium though. At the very least they are guaranteed track position with a tyre that should take them to the end.

  • Coelacanth
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    012 days ago

    THREE STOPPER? Merc are either brilliant or throwing Kimi’s race here.

  • @[email protected]
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    012 days ago

    Crazy how Leclerc still doesn’t seem to have enough authority to call his own strategy. We ofcourse only hear soundbites.

    Though I don’t get again why they didn’t split strategy.

  • HSR🏴‍☠️
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    012 days ago

    Looks like Red Bull discovered a new way of bottling pit stops, faulty release light.

    • @[email protected]
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      012 days ago

      It’s been a slow decline since they hit that world record pit stop and then Merc cried about it and had the rules changed. Ever since then Redbull has just been getting slowly worse with the pit stops. Today was particularly egregious.

      It sounds weird as a redbull fan, but I was just happy both of them ended up on the points it was such a disaster filled race for them. Car seemed to just be a shit box all weekend. Pit stop fuckery basically put both of them at the back. Just a weekend to learn from for us…

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      012 days ago

      It wasn’t in the last corner as the timing would have suggested but in the first part of the last lap.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl
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    012 days ago

    A full safety car for some debris sweeping? Smells like meddling in here…

    • @[email protected]
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      012 days ago

      I’m not entirely sure I understand what is going on though, with Antonelli getting softs with 29 laps to go.