Ben Hocking

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The Late Braking F1 Podcast · Malaysia is hosting the 2026 Bahrain GP?! Our reaction · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

Other than that, though, great circuit.

One of my favourite Turn 1s because maybe a little bit similar to China, but not quite as... If you think about Shanghai Turn 1, it's quite an exaggerated, slower sort of right hand, whereas... Better, I'd say.

But I compare it to China because you've still got the immediate swerve back to the left and then sort of a run down to a heavier braking zone, which is Turn 4.

So it's...

I think it's a nice flowing circuit, particularly in the middle sector.

You've got a range of corner types, quite a few heavier braking zones, particularly the final and the first corner.

I, like you, am not too sure what battery management is going to be like here.

My instinct is it won't be as bad as some of the circuits we've had on the calendar so far and Monza that's still to come.

I don't think this will be like...

I think it'll be better than the likes of Spa and Melbourne.

I think it might still be in the bottom half of tracks maybe, but that will be an interesting one to keep an eye on.

And yeah, for those of you that are maybe slightly newer to the sport, this is a circuit that has been home to a number of really big moments in F1 history.

If you think, we'll go all the way back to 2003, it was the site of not only Fernando Alonso's first pole position, it was the site of Kimi Raikkonen's first win,

2016, quite an infamous engine failure of Lewis Hamilton that helped decide that year's Drivers' Championship.

And unbelievably, 2017, the last year we were here, Max Verstappen won.

What was his second race win?

Goodness me.

I was realizing as I was thinking about this topic earlier that we're obviously very blessed on the podcast to have a wide variety of listeners.

We've had people contact us before who have been listening, sorry, watching F1 all the way back from the 1970s.

And yet we have plenty of people who are...

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