Let’s find out in the data provided by Brembo the braking points and the characteristics of the Dutch track where the 14th round of the championship takes place at the weekend
August 31
– zandvoort (holland)
F1 does not stop and at the weekend it is already time to get back on track: in fact, the Dutch GP is being held in Zandvoort. It starts with the Red Bull-Ferrari duel, with the Milton Keynes team practically running at home given the enormous support that will come for the world champion Max Verstappen, leading the World Championship and anxious to give an encore after the great victory of the 2021. Max has 98 points ahead of Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, a success would essentially put the title in the safe.
use of the brakes
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Zandvoort is a very sinuous circuit that falls into the category of medium demanding circuits for the brakes. On a scale of 1 to 5 it earned a difficulty index of 3. One of the characteristic features is the presence of curves 3 and 14 with a bank of about 19 degrees, more than double the Indianapolis basin. This affects the set-up of the single-seaters which in turn affects the functioning of the brakes. Only in 4 of the 14 corners of the Dutch track do the drivers not use the brakes: three of these are the succession of curves 4-5-6 which, due to their radius, do not require the use of the braking system, nor the last corner thanks to the its inclination. In one lap, the drivers use the brakes for a total of 11 seconds, equivalent to 16 per cent of the entire GP.
smoothness
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The extreme smoothness of the track is confirmed by the presence of only 2 curves in which braking times reach 2 seconds: curves 9 and 11, with the latter also distinguished by the 4.7 g to which the drivers are subjected. while exerting a load of 142 kg on the brake pedal. From the start to the checkered flag, each driver exerts a load of over 73 tons on the brake pedal, almost double that of the Belgian GP. Of the 10 braking sections of the Dutch GP, 2 are considered highly demanding on the brakes, 6 are of medium difficulty and the remaining 2 are simpler.
Turn 1 the most difficult
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The hardest for the braking system is the one at the first corner because the cars benefit from a straight of 1.1 km and the lack of braking at the last corner: the single-seaters rely on the brakes at 317 km / h and go down to 133 km / h in just 111 meters. To do this, the drivers brake for 1.99 seconds and face a deceleration of 4.8 g.
August 31, 2022 – 15:52
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