The new Istanbul GP circuit
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Another Herman Tilke design. - www.msoistanbul.com
Lots of starts and stops, doesn't look very flowing or somewhere where you can get a good rhythm. The F1 cars will be racing on it in August.
Lots of starts and stops, doesn't look very flowing or somewhere where you can get a good rhythm. The F1 cars will be racing on it in August.
I wish they would employ somebody else to design the tracks for once... just because 1 person has done a few doesn't mean he should do all new ones. I'd like to see tracks with lots of almost flat out corners and lots of elevation change, lots of bumps, a few off camber corners and some corners with several different lines you can take... no chicanes.
The notion that you can create a "GP" track out of nothing is, to me, an anathema. These new tracks are being designed and built with one purpose in mind only, to host a World Championship F1 race. To me, GP racing is about driving on "natural" circuits - indeed, public roads where possible. These purpose built FI boreodromes are useless.
And what about other forms of motor racing? Many of these new circuits sit idle for the other 362 days of the year. They have no connection with real motor racing or real motor sport.
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 17th April 14:26
And what about other forms of motor racing? Many of these new circuits sit idle for the other 362 days of the year. They have no connection with real motor racing or real motor sport.
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 17th April 14:26
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