After the presentations of single-seater on the Formula 1 gridall sets of ‘Great Circus’ They focused on the next stop: the trials of preseason. The winter tests are all that the teams can do with the regulation in the existing cars except for the permitted filming days (with up to 100 km to shoot shots for advertisements) that have already been done or most teams will do during these days to Check that everything is in place before the tests start.
The test of Bahrain They will be a total of 3 days, each divided into two sessions (morning and afternoon), where each of the two drivers from each team will have a day and a half behind the wheel of their new car to understand it , understand how to push it to the limit. and find the right settings before the season starts.
F1 preseason test schedule
In Bahrain
– February 21: Day 1, 8am-12.15pm and 1.15pm-5.30pm
– February 22: Day 2, 8am-12.15pm and 1.15pm-5.30pm
– February 23: Day 3, 8am-12.15pm and 1.15pm-5.30pm
F1 racing calendar in 2024
1. Bahrain (Sakhir, February 29 to March 2)
2. Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, March 7-9)
3. Australia (Melbourne, March 22-24)
4. Japan (Suzuka, April 5-7)
5. China (Shanghai, April 19-21)
6. Miami (Miami, May 3-5)
7. Emilia Romagna (Imola, May 17 to 19)
8. Monaco (Monaco, May 24-26)
9. Canada (Montreal, June 7-9)
10. Spain (Barcelona, June 21 to 23)
11. Austria (Spielberg, June 28-30)
12. United Kingdom (Silverstone, July 5-7)
13. Hungary (Budapest, July 19-21)
14. Belgium (Spa, July 26-28)
15. Netherlands (Zandvoort, August 23-25)
16. Italy (Monza, August 30 to September 1)
17. Azerbaijan (Baku, September 13-15)
18. Singapore (Singapore, September 20-22)
19. United States (Austin, October 18-20)
20. Mexico (C. México, from October 25 to 27)
21. Brazil (Sao Paulo, November 1 to 3)
22. Las Vegas (Las Vegas, November 21 to 23)
23. Qatar (Lusail, November 29 to December 1)
24. Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina, December 6-8)
At the Sakhir track, drivers and teams will find out if the simulator and wind tunnel data of their new cars match reality and the cars behave as they want.
But most of all, they can study the performance of their cars. regarding how much or how little their rivals have done. All teams will try to hide their cards, running with more fuel, with more conservative engine maps or slowing down their speed in a certain sector to throw off the opponents. Although later, the engineers of all the teams will be able to use their intelligence to understand what the grid order will be for the first Grand Prix of the seasonwhich will be held on the same route in Sakhir (Bahrain) from October 29 to February 2.
The race of progress
From there, it will again be important to understand performance on different track types and see if the grid order varies at tracks as diverse as Jeddah (Saudi Arabia, March 9), Albert Park ( Australia, March 24) , Suzuka (Japan, April 7) or Shanghai (China, April 21), the first five events of the course.
These tracks will help the teams prepare for the evolutions that may begin to arrive at Imola, in the sixth race of the year in a calendar where the The Spanish GP, at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, will be the course’s 10th race (June 23). It’s going to be a long year, 24 races, the longest in history
Source: La Verdad
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