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2 Sep 2014, 14:00 (Ref:3449718) | #51 | |
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Looks like Monza was made easier... Sad that most of the classic curves are getting destroy for safety.
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It's crap but not any more crap than all the retarded changes to Spa etc in the last few years. I fully expect all the corners of Monza to be modified in the next five years too
You know isn't it interesting that while it was the WSBK/FIM that was initially blamed for this one, Charlie says here: "This has been requested for safety reasons by the FIA and the drivers, just as it has been at virtually every other circuit that F1 races on. Oh and look what a surprise, the exit has been asphaltized and astroturfed as well - surely not even Charlie could give "safety" excuses for this one. Now all of them will just be skipping through that and FIA does nothing |
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You know I recently watched some FIA GT4s at Zandvoort. And Jetta TDI Cup from Road Atlanta from few years back. While those cars are obviously painfully slow and unspectacular by itself, following them though those circuits still felt infinitely more daring and adventurous than F1 or WEC or anything at CotA or wherever because I knew they had to respect the circuit, not play plastic video games without consequences. That's where we are at, soon the club series and smaller championships will provide the only 'thrills' just because of the circuits they go to.
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For a club track there's fair bit of tarmac runoff in there. And then on other parts the walls immediately next to the track
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What I meant that it's the same sort of inconsistency as you have at say Korea, ie big parking lot runoffs in 95% of the corners and then suddenly street circuit surroundings for a small bit. Now obviously that Bilster Berg doesn't have that sort of magnitude anywhere but there are some resemblances
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4 Sep 2014, 18:57 (Ref:3450320) | #60 | |
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We have new tarmac runoff replacing old gravel trap at Suzuka Dunlop Curves for F1... let's dance
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To be fair to Tilke, and I'm not a fan of doing that, when he is designing a track for F1 there are VERY restrictive rules on corner radius, gradient, runoff etc he has to run to.
And the weird wish for long straights like Korea bookended with slow hairpins. |
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5 Sep 2014, 12:53 (Ref:3450531) | #62 | |
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As restrictive as the directives must be, I doubt they say that the (mandatory 5,5km) layout must include tight technical sector somewhere, preferably towards the end of the lap.
Anyway, it takes some serious skill of the 'gladiators of our time' to still mess it up even with the new runoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodczuLpjA0&t=0m5s Of course what this does is encourage drivers to take the corner as "whatever", leading up to such incidents. Apparently everyone has been violating the corner today already and driving off the white line, which should come as no surpise to anyone |
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15 Sep 2014, 20:24 (Ref:3453662) | #63 | |
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I came across the following interview with Spa director Thibaut:
http://www.speedactiontv.be/PA_Thiba..._-13908-1.aspx In that interview he says that a stripe of grass will return to Blanchimont before the tarmac runoff starts, to make sure that drivers respect track limits instead of using the runoff as an extended track and taking too many risks. This is very interesting I think, as it goes against the trend of putting more tarmac everywhere. |
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Strange to have it back there on particular as there are trillion other places getting abused on that circuit due to the asphalt extensions everywhere, but maybe it's a 'trial run'.
This could be a very good sign of sense slowly and with baby steps returning to circuit design, I approve. Though on the other hand new tarmac-ations are happening on plenty of Grade 1 and Grade 2 circuits right now |
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Quite common to see people climbing that fence at Radillion (I've done it once). Making it taller may also manage to reduce the amount of people climbing as well as provide better safety protection.
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And rather surprisingly, there's more of 'backwards engineering' going on here
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Monza removes gravel for bikes, and Austin adds gravel.... for bikes. How does that corner look now? Tarmac, followed by gravel further down the runoff area?
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I'm not sure if the Monza abomination was 100% down to FIM as Safety-Charlie later on said that FIA and most of F1 drivers had requested/wanted it...
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Monza can say what they like in their releases, but it seems pretty clear that the tarmac was added at Parabolica for F1, and only F1. In fact, WSBK left Monza for this season; I wonder if they knew what was coming.
You DON'T see (the large-scale) paved run-offs at Mugello, Laguna Seca, Sachsenring, Motegi, Rio Hondo, Philip Island, Le Mans Bugatti, Losail, Estoril, Sepang, or Brno. In addition, MotoGP uses the old La Caixa and penultimate corner at Catalunya, and does NOT use the Senna Chicane at Jerez. Those unmodified corners have gravel run-offs. All of this ought to tell you something. It should also be noted that the FIM intentionally went with Populous for Silverstone, not Tilke, due to the German's recent propensity for paved run-offs. So, as bad as the Arena GP Circuit might seem, MotoGP was concerned that it was going to be worse if they went with F1's default choice. Last edited by Purist; 30 Oct 2014 at 22:20. |
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In a shocking move, we have more asphalt runoff for Interlagos (this time on the left side of turn 2) that is quickly becoming Spa 2.0 in this aspect.
And no-one in the GP or 6 hours is surely gonna shortcut this huge new pit entry with painted lines, surely... Last edited by Deleted; 6 Nov 2014 at 00:39. |
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And who will obey the white line in the actual run up to the finish line when it's put like this?? They'll go as close to that tire barrier as possible. Might just as well remove the line
Think this extends bit further than it used as well? The support wall is new nevertheless And there's new alternative entry for turn 10 Last edited by Deleted; 6 Nov 2014 at 01:55. |
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6 Nov 2014, 09:01 (Ref:3472160) | #73 | |
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Theyll probably penalize cutting the white lines. If not, it looks like astro turf(?) will be getting torn up.
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