News Details

Piastri's excited verdict after lapping 'very interesting' new Albert Park Circuit

Article To news overview © Renault Alpine reserve driver Oscar Piastri has revealed that he has driven Albert Park's heavily-modified new circuit on the simulator and is expecting lap times to be "significantly quicker" than ever before. The organisers of the popular Australian Grand Prix have made several changes to their track since F1 last raced in Melbourne, back in 2019. A number of turns have been widened to promote overtaking while an entire chicane has been bypassed with a new straight-line section, increasing the number of DRS zones to four. One corner has also been tightened, so as to lengthen the braking zone and to allow cars more opportunities to fight side-by-side....
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Melbourne's Albert Park to feature four DRS zones!

Melbourne and F1 have done their best to improve the show on the track...
3y ago from F1i.com

Australian Grand Prix track changes to improve F1...

Formula 1 will race at a revamped Albert Park track in Melbourne for the...
3y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Verstappen: Interesting to see track updates in...

Max Verstappen is looking forward to the 2022 Formula 1 Australian Grand...
3y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Australian GP: Wednesday at Albert Park in pictures

Formula 1 was already up and running in Melbourne on Wednesday. Teams had...
3y ago from F1i.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

McLaren to auction future F1, IndyCar and WEC cars in...

McLaren is to auction future F1, IndyCar and World Endurance Championship...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

IndyCar Portland – Race Results

The final road course event of the 2025 IndyCar season was contested on...

Chip Ganassi: ‘We’re spoiled’ having drivers...

Alex Palou clinched the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series title over the weekend,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kalle Rovanperä hits the jackpot

Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen finally won Rally Finland, laying to...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Sources: Next 48 hours 'will decide' £55m Tottenham...

Tottenham are pushing hard to land Eberechi Eze as the deal enters its...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'It's always unfair when I talk about a striker' -...

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has delivered his thoughts on new striker...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Questions, new rules, and lots of stuff

Morning. This is gonna be quite a short Friday morning blog, but don't...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the...

ther new era at Tottenham, De Cuyper can shine for Brighton and Aston...
8h ago from TheGuardian.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.