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[Badsight-]

the shorter pit-stops are making for less of an overtake opportunity

to me they have helped enforce the procession behavior of open wheel-&-wings racing .

the feild is looking great this year tho

[Badsight-]

the shorter pit-stops are making for less of an overtake opportunity

to me they have helped enforce the procession behavior of open wheel-&-wings racing .

the feild is looking great this year tho

[AndyJWest]

I only caught the last few laps, but Bahrain this year definitely didn't inspire me with enthusiasm. Probably too soon to tell though, I think most teams are still fine-tuning, and the drivers may have been under orders to keep to sensible (i.e. boring) limits, while they acquire race-condition data. It isn't really a track to show the finer points of driving either. Of the newer tracks, only Turkey really encourages 'on the edge' driving (turn 8), so we will need to wait for the later races to judge what is driver skill, and what is a lucky guess at the best setup. Roll on Silverstone, Spa, Monza, and Sazuka...

[Badsight-]

2010 bahrain is a track with a high driver workload . the added endurance section is constant sideways G force

maybe your meaning overtake opportunities . the "driver skill" required was showing off in the cooked rears

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[gkll]

I had been hoping the new rules would spice things up..... hmmm

One observation is that now a pitstop guarantees a substantially faster lap time after returning to the track. Before, with refuelling, new tires+more weight=????laptimes. Now it seems if one piles in they will all have to counter quickly. Less variation in possible racewinning strategies perhaps is the outcome