The original proposal looks like a much better circuit than the one we have.Awesome pictures Jimlaad! Looks like a great venue, a lot better than I had anticipated !
Only two things I would change is have a straight connecting 11-14 Making for quick sweeping turns leading the last two coming out of 8 ! Then push that infield structure by the start line somewhere along with the pits on the outside of the 14-15 straight so the view from the grand stand would encompass the last set of turns like an arena! That will most likely never happen, but we can dream, right?
The original proposal looks like a much better circuit than the one we have.
Turn 2 looks a bit better, and after turn 4 looks like a medium-fast corner. OK, the triple hairpins are crap, but at least the arena section isn't so mickey mouse eh? Plus a quadruple-apex final corner, faster than the silly double 90 degree'er we have now.
We can't judge it until we see it. Valencia looked pretty cool, until we saw racing happen there. Sochi is uninspiring, but it may produce one of the best races ever! We just don't know until we get there really.Damn, now that is a nice circuit! Triple hairpin thing is weird, but other than that it appears to be a brilliant circuit. By the way so there is no confusion, when I was talking about how this was better than anticipated, I was referencing the facility and structures. The current circuit is pretty much crap
We can't judge it until we see it. Valencia looked pretty cool, until we saw racing happen there. Sochi is uninspiring, but it may produce one of the best races ever! We just don't know until we get there really.
Still. He surely didn't get the experience of a single-seater, but he got the experience of the track.Well, as far as I know there is nothing in regulations to stop any driver testing at any circuit, as long as it is not in a current Formula 1 car.