02/10/2026
Bahrain GP Track Analysis β Everything You Need to Know! π²πΎβ¨
The Bahrain Grand Prix is being held at the Sepang International Circuit, and Formula 1 has not raced here in nine years. 5.543 kilometres, 15 corners, 56 laps β two long straights running in opposite directions, joined by a hairpin at each end.
πΉ What kind of circuit? Wide. 16 metres at its narrowest, 22 at its widest, which is why Sepang has always produced side-by-side racing.
πΉ Straight Mode zones? Four for 2026: the main straight, the uphill run from Turn 3 to Turn 4, the short run from Turn 8 towards Turn 9, and the back straight. Sepang ran two DRS zones in 2017, so it doubles.
πΉ Overtake boost? Detection and activation both sit on the exit of Turn 15 β straight onto the main straight.
πΉ The defining feature? Two hairpins facing each other. A move that fails into Turn 15 gets a second attempt into Turn 1, and there is a Straight Mode zone on each.
πΉ Hardest corner? Turn 14 β blind, tightening, and it opens the 927-metre back straight. Get it wrong and you lose the whole straight.
πΉ Fastest sequence? Turns 12 and 13, a flat-out left into a flat right.
πΉ Trickiest? Turn 5 is off-camber, Turn 11 is off-camber, and Turn 9 climbs to a crest right at the apex.
πΉ Elevation change? 22 metres, between Turn 3 and Turn 11.
πΉ Speed trap? On the back straight, just before Turn 15.
πΉ Lap record? 1:34.080, Sebastian Vettel, 2017 β set by a car nothing on this grid is related to, and it has stood for nine years because nobody has raced here since.
Bahrain Grand Prix, 2-4 October, at Sepang. π²πΎποΈπ¨
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