F1: Fast Australian GP Predicted as Melbourne Gets Another DRS Zone

Organisers are promising the quickest Australian Grand Prix ever after the addition of a fourth DRS zone on the Albert Park circuit for the third spherical of the Formula One season in early April.

The fourth zone – a primary for a Formula One circuit – was launched for final 12 months’s race on a newly upgraded monitor however eliminated by the governing FIA on security grounds after the opening two follow periods.

Australian Grand Prix chief Andrew Westacott instructed Melbourne’s Herald Sun on Monday that he had “optimistic suggestions from the FIA and Formula One that technically talking a fourth DRS zone can be carried out”.

The result, he told the newspaper, was that the cars could reach speeds of 340 km per hour (211 mph) around the Melbourne street track.

“It will be the fastest race in Melbourne ever,” Westacott mentioned.

“You’ve acquired the evolution of the automobiles from final 12 months, and so they’ve clearly acquired higher, and the fourth DRS zone means the automobiles can be faster across the again of the circuit.”

“Which will obviously increase speed and therefore reduce lap time and make it the quickest Grand Prix and the highest average speed ever in Melbourne.”

The drag discount system (DRS), which permits drivers to regulate the rear wing of their automobiles in sure components of the monitor to scale back aerodynamic drag, was launched in Formula One in 2011 to raised allow overtaking.

The Australian Grand Prix, as soon as the season-opener, was cancelled for 2 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and can happen this 12 months on April 2, after the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races.

Charles Leclerc gained final 12 months’s race from pole place for Ferrari.

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