With ferrari having the best power unit I'm hoping to see a haas on the podium

I like the corner upgrade but the drs is a bit overkill

I like all the widening of the track. Over the years the car keeps getting bigger, while the track would stay the same, clearly becoming a problem.

What if the drivers could only use drs in 1 of the 2 zones after each detection point...

2 problems with 4 DRS zones: 1. Drivers won't have a chance to break out of a car's DRS zone, because 2 corners after passing someone with DRS, there's another zone for them to catch up with. Even a car with a significant pace advantage will struggle to get more than 1s ahead of the car behind. 2. With only 2 detection points and half of the lap driven with DRS, who gets DRS will be even more important, and we could see more shinannigans at the detection points.

tbh, the line for T9 and T10 is the one we all did back in F1 97 on the PS1

As someone who just started watching full time in the middle of the 2020 season, I'm excited to see a race in Australia and it will be really interesting for those of us who live in the west coast of the US as the race will start at 10pm on Saturday night.

Track changes seem great. 4 DRS zones seems a bit much. I could see 2 at the most. Track looks to be plenty fast as it is.

I’m so excited for Australia I never watched it before

"Faster, tighter, wider." Am I even on KZfaq?

All these improved overtaking spots, plus FOUR DRS zones, and cars that can follow extremely closely through high speed corners… I’m predicting one of the best races of the whole season!

What they've essentially done is remove/reduce most of the braking zones. Tough to overtake when there's very little braking. Which also explains why they've decided to go for 4 DRS-zones at the last minute.

I have never been so early... i can't wait to see racing around new layout

I was at the track yesterday and can confirm all categories have had the pit limit increased to 80... They reckon it will take only 12.6 seconds to drive through it now......

id like to know who watched the drs chicken last time out and thought to themselves "yes. more drs and less detection points"

A DRS zone + Albert Park's turn 11 sounds like a new 130R to me, anyone else?

Recently went to a swimming carnival that was right next to the track! The bus that we arrived on actually parked on the track itself. It looked so cool and I can’t wait for the race!

I am sad that Michael Schumacher’s race lap record from 04 is now gone. 🥺 My favourite Driver, Car and Track. I always looked at the lap record whenever I played the F1 game and just smiled at that 1.24.125. Bwoah.

Still cant get over 4! DRS zones! 😮

I am so excited to wake up at 4:50 AM to watch FP1!

Might be an unpopular opinion: liked the previous tracklayout

I guess Ocon and Alonso will get more TV coverage this weekend with all the side by side action and overtaking possibilities!

I'm hoping these changed does make the track better for racing (although the now excessive use of drs zones is just asking for another "drs chicken part 3") but they heavily altered/removed my two favorite parts of the circuit (turn 6 and the 9/10 chicane) so I'm a little bummed by that. Let's hope the changes were worth it, I'm glad Australia is back

Matt: The pit lane will be widened by 2 metres Vettel in 2016 China GP: 👀

Maybe have 4 DRS zones but only allow 1 use of DRS in a lap. Or perhaps only have DRS available to cars who are more than a second back. The DRS then being used to get cars back within overtaking distance rather than just handing them the position.

I'm in south America so the Australian GP it's gonna be at 1am Sunday "morning" .... and even doe I'm so excited that the F1 back to Australia and with more DRS!!!

I am really excited australia grand prix

Looks like it's going to be a really fun track now. Hoping to see that the 4 DRS zones make for an exciting race now.

Having watched the Aussie v8 supercars and they have been struggling around turn 5 and going into the wall and 6-11 is amazing and looking like they have heaps of grip and would definitely be a side by side racing through there

They shouldve kept the old T1. The rest sounds good!

Get rid of DRS I'd say - change the regs to force cars to be more draggy and thus benefiting greatly from a slipstream. It's better than playing chicken at DRS detection zones. I'd take slower lap times over DRS any day

the removal of turn 9 and 10 is the best one here

That is just bonkers, 4 DRS zones What world are we living in... Anyway, brilliant video as always :)

This years Grand Prix is the first time Australia has been round 3 since 2010

It's weird, all the talk about widening corners and tracks not being able to pass on. Why not just make the cars more narrow again? 🤔

It would be cool if you could add something like a minimap to the video, highlighting which part of the track you are talking about at the moment. I don't really know all corners by heart...

@wtf1 Matt they also removed the grass at the start straight on the pit wall side where Danny Ric took his from wing off driving over the tall grass in 2019.

the third drs zone is scary seen from the sim as it is a tightening corner. and overtakes around there and the next zone should be definitve as the detection is so far ahead! let's see. thx, I was needing for this vid. VAI BRASIL

Had an awesome day at the track today watching the practice sessions, looking forward to the next 2 days!

Keep it up!

Hoping to see Haas on the podium

Always one of my favourite races of the year and with the changes they have made this weekends race should be a great one!!

The timings thoooo

Loving this trend of fast tracks, or making tracks faster! Piss off all the chicanes on all the other tracks too!

-Turn 9-10 should be a tight chicane( similar to monza turn 1&2) -4 DRS zones are overkill, only really need 2( 1 after turn 1&2 , 1 after turn 8)

Where I live (Ontario Canada) practice, Quali and the race all start around 1am which is going to be a pain in the ass. But I imagine the excitement will keep me awake at least til the start of the race but one or two yellow or red flags could be my downfall. However, 99% of the races start at a decent time for me, 6 am is the earliest, so I really have nothing to complain about. I'll still bitch about it 😆 even though I really have no right to considering in some parts of the world almost every race starts at shit time. I've heard people say that many races start at 3 or 4 am for them So for people in those places/countries I honestly hope the Australian GP starts at a good time for you because everyone deserves to have at least a few races each season where they don't have to get up at, or stay up till, some ungodly time of day.

I’ve been at the track yesterday watching all the support categories. V8s, Porsche Cup, S5000. There should actually be a fair bit of rubber down but 1pm for FP1 but cause it’s not the same tyre manufacture it’ll mean less

I just hope it all improves the racing. 25 years in Melbourne and there haven't really been that many 'great' races. After all, Melbourne's advert was 'A great place for the race' and there haven't been too many.

They’ll most likely have the same or almost the same amount of grip from 2019 by the time of Q1 with all the support categories going around, while there’s also been a change to a techpro barrier at turn 5 with it being shorted 20 meters due to two support race crashes

For a F1 fan 1 week is like a year

Reason the slow corners and chicanes were there was to slow the cars down. Big accidents happen when high speed collisions occur. Expect more of them.

4 DRS zones take away from the special effect/excitement/anticipation of the use of DRS. At this rate, where the entire track is a big DRS hot zone, it's safe to remove it and just go racing the old fashioned way.

More DRS, faster corners, Lewis on the podium......Now that's a good weekend. Russell wins his first GP. Now that would be brilliant.

Definitely great changes. This is the kind of change we ALL want, but sometimes didn't know we did!

I’m ready for the race. Go Max!

RB and Ferrari, almost equal in every single thing. This is going to be such an amazing season :D

As an Australian the best thing that could of helped the track in Melbourne was to move the race to Bathurst, that would be something to watch.

OMG, you mixed Imperial and Metric! Savage!

with the new layout it will be a good race on sunday

An 80kph pit speed.... well this will be interesting 😋😋😋 delicious F1! Delicious 2022 season 😋 😄😄

From the amount of DRS zones I’m guessing leclare and verstappen are going to shorten the lap time by 1-1.2 seconds

I think they should have kept turns 9-10 and taken out the next chicane to have a longer run down to the new turn 12 which is tighter.

Let's be honest here. We all used the new layout back in the days of EA Sports F1 series 🤣

Removing 9/10 will just transfer the spread of the field to 11 and 12. Truth is i don't think it will help much, at least not as much as the 4 drs zones, even with the new cars. I'm not an expert and i could most definitely be wrong but at the end of the day i don't think that f1 will change that much without a more profound alteration of the race rules. Imo making DRS a quota during the race, where, the furthest you are from first place, the more you can use it; would most certainly change things up. That way slower cars gain time on the leading cars in the straights (+coincidently helps with porpoising) That would be an impactful change. Because when you think about it, all those changes we got for 2022 don't make overtaking easier on an absolute scale, it does it relatively compared to how much harder it was made due to the way the cars produced dirty air previously. Those rules try to achieve a net neutral in an absolute scale, which they maybe came close to doing. Following cars are always going to be slower in a corner, because the driver doesn't have clear visibility of his braking point, etc and more generaly has to react to what happens in front. Wanting the field to be close together in a sport where hard to change engineering tricks dictate 95% of the race pace is litteraly working against the nature of the sport and what said nature implies on track. So if you want it, you have to create rules going against the nature of the sport, ie, giving an advantage to slower car (which classic drs does, but in a fainter way than what i proposed above.) Don't get me wrong, i want the field to be closer, don't take me for one of those purists that want it the way it was 20 years ago. I'm just saying that shallow changes aren't necessarily going to make it that much better. I might totally be wrong but those are my thoughts.

this race is gonna be mental

the real season opener

3:25 sad seb noises

Seems more flowing and hopefully less boring. Go Ricciardo! 🏁🏎

thx for this video !

Why did they change turn 6 I loved that corner so much... Yeah true, overtaking not really but just about on the limit to sliding into the wall was sooooo satisfying...

Personally I feel that the changes are unnecessary except for 1 & 3, i can let 11 and 13 slide a little, but maybe for the old 9-10 chicane, they could have widened it, but getting rid of it all together? Nah, that ain't for me.

Damn. When you have to use miles just to slap out a meme at the end, appreciated the effort.. now please, lets get back to metric haha

Sounds like the track is getting up to speed as the new cars should be much faster as well.

To me, the Australian GP has always been like Monaco without the prestige of qualifying on Saturday.

would be nice if you had actual graphics for the changes so they would be better visible...

Merc will be on the Podium with the changes of the car i think

4 drs zones is nuts

This year is going to be awesome!

Glad that we are back.... let's go Aussie Aussie Aussies 😄😄 hoping for all the success for folks down under with this new track. Can't wait .....

Guy who made the changes: let's make bad boi thicc mates!

If the cars do in fact get down to the 1:15’s, the average lap speed in qualifying will be over 156 mph (250 km/h). That will make it the third fastest circuit of the year behind Monza and Jeddah- only about half a mile an hour slower than Jeddah.

I'm sorry to point this out, but it's raining in Melbourne at the moment.

According to the F1 word's Australia gp preview the pit lane speed limit has been increased.

Pit lane speed limit is now faster than most of the country's roads.

Tbh, the old T9-10 might have been good given they sped up T6 but we’ll see, excited nonetheless

I’m excited for the race because it’s in my time zone

oh wow. This is looking really really exciting. Mclaren with a solid chance it seems! If their strategists can be smart this time we can expect a good result

Pit lane has been widened too

Catalunya organizer should take some serious notes.

I hope this sort of video will be as interesting for the Belgium GP than it was was for Australia. Or did they just change that one Eau Rouge corner?

1 quick stupid question from where can I watch the race live?

That thumbnail *Faster Tighter Wider* is very sus 👀😅😂

These are some great ODDS on Latifi DNF, or should I say Crashtifi

"We won't be seeing any overtakes in the pitlane" - Sebastian Vettel has entered the chat

You guys deserve to get to use f1 video clips

I just Hope for this season there Will be les of those consécutive DRS zones to avoid passing, repassing …..

So. A bit of a theme here. The track's been put through an 'Merican diet; widened everywhere! Noice. They like'em chunk'ae.

Mhm, track resurface? Turkey 2020 flashbacks intensify

Thicc corners

My first thought after hearing the changes was that they clearly wanted higher speed. 4 DRS zones i do NOT like atall. There is supposed to be some lvl of skill involved in overtaking and not just pushing a button after every 3rd corner. Unless Red Bull has a mechanical issue coming this Sunday i am expecting 2 Red Bulls at the top of the podium. Red Bulls engine is already the fastest on the grid and with 4 DRS zones i cant se Ferrari ever managing to brake away.