The FIA has reduced the DRS zone on Baku's main straight in order to lessen the impact of the F1 overtaking aid this weekend. Full story:
Last year the second of two DRS activation points was drawn 347 metres past Turn 20, the final flat-out kink leading onto Baku's ultra-long main straight.
Baku is the fourth of five F1 circuits to have undergone tweaks to the DRS zones to fine-tune the balance between improving the show and making overtaking too trivial. After last year's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, it was deemed that Baku's long straights and DRS placement had made overtaking too easy with F1's new-for-2022 generation of ground-effect cars.
"In an ideal world DRS is used just to get on the back of someone, so you can really have a decent attack."
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