Carlos Sainz says F1 may extend Zandvoort DRS zone to include banking. Carlos says F1 may extend Zandvoort DRS zone to include banking.

Formula 1 may increase the length of the DRS zone at Zandvoort after Friday practice if they are satisfied they can do so safely, Carlos Sainz has suggested

Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz confirmed that Formula 1 may decide to eventually increase the length of the DRS zone at the Zandvoort after the data gathered during Friday practice if they are satisfied they can do so safely.

The DRS zone on the pit straight at the Dutch circuit begins after the banked final corner, as the reprofiled Arie Luyendykbocht was designed with the intention of allowing drivers to use DRS through it. Yet Carlos Sainz stated that there is the possibility of extending the DRS zone after analyzing the data from Friday practice, if the info proves that it can be done without compromising safety. “If we see it is okay then we might actually have it on Saturday I heard,” Carlos confirmed.

But even if the DRS zone is extended, the Ferrari driver feels that overtaking will not be easy around the revamped Zandvoort track: “I don’t think that the DRS position is going to make the overtaking that much better because the corners that precede this straight are all corners that, for us, it’s going to be particularly difficult to follow around. For more overtaking we would actually need a lot of degradation, tyres to to fall apart and maybe some people do a big tyre delta on others to have any chance of overtaking but it’s quite a hard compound tyre. The straight is not very long and I don’t expect that the DRS would have made a huge difference.” – Carlos concluded.