The Baku City Circuit is mixture of wide and open and tight and twisty. The long main straight along the Baku shoreline is a slipstreaming mecca, and with cars able to run three abreast into Turn 1, the action often looks more IndyCar than Formula 1. However from there, the track loops around into the city’s narrow, winding Icheri Sheher old town, dramatically wending past Baku’s medieval city walls. Just like on the streets of Monte Carlo in Monaco, the smallest of mistakes are punished instantly and severely, while set-up wise, the F1 teams need to choose between finding as much downforce as possible for the twisty bits and less drag for the long straight.
Visit ScuderiaFans to get up-to-the-minutes for the latest results, timings, news and info from the Baku City Circuit, as the first practice session for the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix is about to start. Scuderia Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will hit the track behind the wheel of the F1-75 car, with the goal of evaluating tyre management and identifying the ideal set-up ahead of the qualifying session on Saturday and the race on Sunday.
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