The Bahrain international circuit is one of the slower tracks that Hermann Tilke has designed, but it’s still quite interesting.
It’s usually quite windy in the afternoons, which results in sand getting blown onto the track. The knock-on effect of this is felt most in qualifying, when everyone wants to be the last person on the track, when the circuit is at its cleanest. Therefore there’s usually a lot of traffic to negotiate.
The BIC is one of the slower tracks that Hermann Tilke has designed, but it’s still quite interesting. From a technical point of view, braking and traction are crucial, and you break very hard into turn one, from seventh gear - more than 300kph - down to first gear. This provides the best overtaking opportunity on the lap.
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Turn two is a left kink, which, without traction control, is going to be quite challenging because you’re going to have a lot of slip. We might see some snap oversteer here as a result. Turn three is easy flat and leads to the right-hander turn four, which is taken in third gear. It’s off-camber and could pose quite a traction problem without traction control.
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