Within the round-up: New gravel traps across the Losail circuit ought to assist keep away from the monitor limits issues of final 12 months’s race, believes Lance Stroll
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Losail gravel will forestall “mess” – Stroll
After 51 lap instances have been deleted in final 12 months’s Qatar Grand Prix, Stroll believes that new gravel traps put in at a number of nook exits across the Losail circuit will assist to keep away from comparable issues this weekend.
“I noticed there’s some gravel traps now,” the Aston Martin driver informed the official F1 channel. “It’s higher than coping with the ache of monitor limits in 18 corners or regardless of the nook numbers are right here.
“I believe final 12 months was a little bit of a large number within the race, I bear in mind. So hopefully it’s a greater answer.”
Losail’s DRS zone shortened
The only real DRS zone on the Losail circuit has been diminished by 100 metres in comparison with final 12 months’s Qatar Grand Prix.
The monitor options only a single DRS zone alongside its 5.4km lap size, with the activation level moved additional up the pit straight by precisely 100 metres in comparison with 2023.
The detection zone for DRS stays the identical as final 12 months’s occasion, which was moved nearer to the exit of the penultimate nook of flip 15 in comparison with the circuit’s inaugural grand prix in 2021.
Pourchaire handed Peugeot reserve position
Theo Pourchaire has been named as take a look at and growth driver for Peugeot’s hypercar undertaking within the World Endurance Championship.
The 2023 System 2 champion will run in non-public exams within the 9X8 and might be known as upon to interchange any of the workforce’s race drivers if unavailable. He beforehand participated within the rookie take a look at in Bahrain after the latest season finale for the workforce.
“The Peugeot 9X8 is a really highly effective automotive, in contrast to something I’ve pushed earlier than,” Pourchaire stated. “Endurance automobiles are extremely superior and cutting-edge when it comes to know-how, making them much like System 1 automobiles. Being a take a look at driver is a unbelievable alternative, and I’m grateful to Peugeot for providing me this opportunity.”
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FIA operating out of individuals to do jobs, says sacked steward (BBC)
Tim Mayer: ”I understand how exhausting each of these jobs are. I like Rui (Marques) loads, however it would put him underneath unbelievable stress. There aren’t numerous ‘platinum-level’ FIA race administrators, which is the FIA’s highest degree certification. I am one among them. It is numerous work and, if you’re doing the job proper, you get up each day with an ulcer pondering of all the varied issues it’s worthwhile to be desirous about. They are not doing themselves any favours. They’re actually operating out of individuals to do these jobs.”
Hamilton pays tribute to Mary McGee after feminine motorsport pioneer’s dying at 87 (Unbiased)
”I’m deeply saddened to listen to that Mary McGee, the primary girl to highway race bikes in the US and the primary individual to solo the Baja 500 has handed on. My condolences to her household and everybody who she’s impressed. Her legacy will stay on as a trailblazer on the planet of motorsports and past.”
Pulling ‘tremendous excited’ to be on brink of sealing title at Losail (Sky)
”Singapore was one which I needed to do nicely at as a result of it is an unbelievable monitor and never many individuals can say they’ve received round that monitor. Having an ideal weekend there places me in an ideal place to not be nervous within the last two rounds. I can give attention to having fun with myself, which is once I drive at my finest and preserve doing what I preserve doing. Hopefully, fingers crossed, we will end on the highest step.”
Időkakapszulát helyeztek el a leendő főépület alapjában (Hungaroring by way of YouTube)
The directors of the Hungaroring have buried a time capsule on the monitor whereas it undergoes intensive renovations, that includes a number of keepsakes from the just about 40-year historical past of the race.
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