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The Barcelona-Catalunya circuit returns to the layout used up until 2006, doing away with the chicane in the third sector, as it hosts the seventh round of the season, the Spanish Grand Prix. It is Carlos Sainz’s home race, at which he finished fourth last year, his best ever home result in Spain.
A few days before the Spanish Grand Prix - which gave Scuderia Ferrari joys and sorrows - the Formula 1 World Championship is back on track for a truly unique race, the Monaco Grand Prix. Home appointment of Charles Leclerc, the race is the shortest of the season (260 km instead of the usual over 300) and the one in which overtaking is more difficult.Key qualification. The circuit is characterized by very few fast sections, an extremely narrow carriageway, ten right-hand and nine left-hand corners, some of which - Ste. Devote, Mirabeau, Rascasse and the 180 ° hairpin near the Fairmont Hotel - are part of the story. of Formula 1. It goes without saying that with these characteristics of the track, a good qualifying is essential in Monaco. Last year Charles managed to take pole position but was unable to take off due to a mechanical problem on the car following an accident on Saturday, while Carlos Sainz took second place on the first podium of his adventure with the Scuderia.On the track on Friday. As for the program, there is a big news: the first day of free practice will no longer be on Thursday - as per tradition - but, like all the other Grand Prix, on Friday. The first session will be at 2pm CET, the second at 5pm. Qualifying will take place on Saturday at 4pm, preceded at 1pm by the last free practice session, while the race will start at 3pm on Sunday. 78 laps of the 3,337-meter circuit, equal to 260,286 kilometers, are to be covered. There is only one DRS zone, on the main straight, which usually contributes little to encouraging overtaking.
Despite this being a very difficult time in Italy and indeed in the rest of the world, because of concerns about the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19), the Formula 1 World Championship will start as planned in Australia and Scuderia Ferrari, the only team to have taken part in every year of the series, will be there. The 71st season of the Formula 1 World Championship gets underway at Melbourne’s Albert Park Circuit on Sunday 15 March. The venue has been the scene of the opening round on 22 occasions and this will be the 25th Australian GP to be held here. With a further eleven races in Adelaide from 1985 to 1995, it means this will be the 36th running of this race.Nine wins. Scuderia Ferrari has nine wins to its name in Australia, the first courtesy of Gerhard Berger in Adelaide in 1987, the last back in 2018 with Sebastian Vettel. The Maranello squad also has a further 16 podium finishes, eight second places and eight thirds. A Ferrari has started from pole six times and set the fastest race lap on nine occasions.Three DRS zones. The 5.303 kilometre-long track features 16 corners and the race distance is 58 laps. Albert Park is a street circuit, therefore the grip level gradually improves, the more running the cars do, thus rubbering-in the surface. There are three DRS zones: the main straight and the sections between turns 2 and 3 and 12 and 13.
Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc talks about the key sections of the Circuit of the Americas, ahead of the 2019 United States Grand Prix: “I really like being in the United States and the city of Austin is amazing. It is just a great location and the atmosphere around the whole event is special, different to what we usually have. The circuit itself is also quite unique. Inspired by parts of some of the most iconic race tracks around the world, it gives us drivers a really nice challenge. With a long straight and a lot of different types of corners, you have to make sure to find the right balance for the car. It is also one of the few tracks to run counter-clockwise, so that mixes things up for us in the cockpit, too.” – Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc said.
"If ever there was a need to say it, the Italian Grand Prix, for Scuderia Ferrari, is a special race. In the pack of memories, even if limited to the Formula One years, you can draw randomly and find something: from the first victory with Alberto Ascari, dated 1951, to the world confirmation of Lauda and Scheckter to the five successes of Michael Schumacher - all with the Red, in the space of eleven years - which in the history of F1 remains the most seen rider on the highest step of the Monza podium. That podium that today has become a catwalk able to offer a unique view, both to those above and to the public below. The national Grand Prix number 69 (only one, remember, was not held in Monza but in Imola in the 80) started practically close to that of Belgium. A small team was seconded for the preparation of the Milan event on Wednesday 29, the activity at the Autodromo began in the early days of the week. Spa and Monza chase each other on the calendar and, in the collective imagination, they also look like super-fast tracks. In reality there are several differences, because the route of Brianza does not have the full bends from that of the Ardennes but, on the contrary, asks a lot more to the brakes and promises, in a straight line, even greater speeds. If there is a common point, besides being two classics of the calendar, it is the passion of the fans that never fails. And that in Monza, not even to say it, is above all red passion."
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