The first two grands prix of the season highlighted a Almost unbeatable Red Bull. It seems that the car adapts to any circuit you race on. It will be the same atAlbert Park? Let's discover the circuit and its characteristics together.
Albert Park Circuit: what do you need to know?
Il Albert Park Circuit is a street circuit built in the city of Melbournein Australia. Is long 5278 meters and, starting this year, there will be 4 DRS zones. It is the only circuit to have all these zones in which to spread the mobile wing wide. This solution had also been adopted in the 2022 edition, but rejected a few hours before the start of qualifying. This year it was decided to try again.
In the first years after its construction, it was not used due to the protests of the environmentalists. This layout has in fact been created in the city streets that delimit the perimeter of the lake in the area. It was only inaugurated in 1996, the year in which the first ever grand prix was held, as well as the first of the season. Since that time, the Melbourne GP (until the Covid era) is always was the inaugural race.
So much degradation, so many stops: a guaranteed show
Albert Park has never been a track that favored cars which, as their main feature, favored the engine. An optimal set-up, for example, is ad high-medium load, although there are 4 DRS zones which, however, are very short. This may indicate little show in terms of overtaking. What certainly increases the interest is the deterioration your shape of urethane. Cornering is, for the most part, of the type that tends to make the car slide a lot, thus leading to an increase inWear. A high load configuration would go to reduce this phenomenon allowing a life of the rubber greater. Sunday, beyond this, we will almost certainly see at least 2 stops.
Australian GP: Red Bull indomitable here too or response from Ferrari?
After already two races they seem to have been defined what they are forces on track. A Red Bull that seems unattainable, with behind Aston Martin who tries but trudges. Third and fourth power, according to what was seen in Jeddah with equal merit, Mercedes e Ferrari. But on this type of circuit who can win it?
Obviously the Milton Keynes team cannot be given as Favourite for the victory of big prize in Australia, but we have seen that they can have problems too. The English team, on the other hand, demonstrated in these two appointments lots of traction, a key factor on this track. Who knows, therefore, that they might not be the ones worrying the enraged bull, so as to counter the Austrian monotony.
ARTICLE BY FRANCESCO ORLANDO
