For the first time since the drag reduction system was introduced in Formula 1 back in 🥀2011, there will be four DRS zones in Sunday🌜’s Australian Grand Prix.

Albert Park h𒈔as alwaꦓys been notoriously difficult to overtake leading to many dull season-opening races.

As a 🌞result, track organisers have made significant changes to the track and pit lane in a bid to improve the racing.

F1 has gone one stepꦫ further by adding a fourth DRS zone for this weekendꦜ.

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Where are the DRS zones?

The first DRSౠ zone remains on the start-finish straight down to Turn 1, while one also remains into Turn 3.

The DRS zone on t🐟he exit of the fast left-right chicane remains down to Turn 11 (was previ🔯ously Turn 13).

A 👍fourth activation zon꧃e has been added on the run to the left-right chicane.

The new zone goes through the heavil𒊎y modified part of the circuit which saw the removal of the old Turn 9-10 right/left corners and turned into a flat-out section.

Four DRS z🐲ones may be seen as too much given how easy it was for drivers to follow each other and re-overtake at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Howevꦕer, unlike in Jeddah which had three detection poi𒆙nts, there are just two for this weekend so if a driver is able to overtake in the new DRS zone into Turn 9, the driver who completed the overtake will have DRS again into Turn 13 meaning he’s guaranteed to remain ahead.

Wherea𝕴s in༺ Saudi Arabia, both Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen didn’t want to be ahead at the final corner as they’d be at serious risk of being overtaken again.

F1 ꦦhas tried to combat this to avoid a repeat of last time out with just two detection points but with four DRS zones on the track, you should still expect to see some ‘cat and mouse’ games between theﷺ drivers at the front given that if the cars are evenly matched, it will be difficult to break the one-second window.

What changes have been made to the track?

Even without the introduction of a fourth DRS zone, organisers have made sign🅠ificant changes to a number of corners.

Albert Park’s tight Turn 1 🅘has 💖been widened by 2.5 metres in hope of improving wheel-to-wheel action at the first corner.

Turn 3 has also been widened, this time✅ by four metres which should give drivers more opportunities to lunge past their rivals.

Turn 6 has been vastly c🌺hanged with a 7.5 metre widening of theℱ corner, increasing speeds from 149km/h to 219km/h.

As previously mentioned, the old Turn 9 and 10 has been remo꧋ved and changed into a flat-out 1.3km section.

This makes it the longest ‘straight’ on the track anꦰd is where the new DRS zone will be situated.

Turn 11 has also been widened and straightened, with the cambeꦆr also being adjusted.

The penultimate corner ওhas also been changed, with it being wiಌdened by 3.5 metres.

Final🔜ly, the pit lane has been widened by two metres which will see the speed limit increase from 60kph to 80kph.

Home hero Daniel Ricciardo was involved in the re-design of the circuit and he's confident the modifications will leaꦡd to being a better show for fans.

"I think with the new design at Albert Park it's really focused on improving the racing, the spectacle for Sunday, to create more opportunities for overtaking," Ricc🅘iardo🌌 said on the Australian GP's YouTube channel.

"It's a beautiful circuit but it's always been quite narr𝔍ow and tight and, therefore, quite tricky to overtake so we've really tried to exploit some areas to allow more slipstreaming, more chance of overtaking under brakinℱg.

♎"So I think it is going to be a different spectacle this time around."