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the low nose cam is back

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Looks like FOM have put the more angled up camera they had last weekend on the nose of Verstappen's car today:




Very reminiscent of this angle from 1994:

Mercedes is ahead by more than 1 second in FP1. If the trends continues, I hope that the second chicane will take care of that on sunday.

Still hate the tarmac runoff at Parabolica

Ocon has conked out

That was a huge lockup by Saniz there

For anyone that has heard them talking about the revisions at turn 1 for next year on Sky:

aren't they only for bikes

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Is that a press conference being set up to announce a Monza extension?

It was originally only going to be used for the bikes but there now talking about using that layout for cars as well.

They should remove Variante della Roggio. Two chicanes within a few hundred meters would be silly.

Three more years at Monza then.

If they will really cut first chicane, that first small right corner will be frightfully fast imo

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True, but the run-off area will be much wider than today. And much much wider than, for example, in Blanchimont which has 320kph top speeds.

those reconfiguration plans look terrible

The concern I would have with the revisions is that right now the 1st sector is where most of the best bits of racing & overtaking is. For as crap a corner as the 1st chicane is we do see some good racing through it & the run through Curve Grande down to the 2nd chicane is also a place where we do see a lot of good racing as the cars tend to pickup a good slipstream which allows for overtaking into the 2nd chicane.

With the revisions I think were going to lose a lot of that as the new turn 1 should be easy flat & should make it easier for cars in-front to defend against a car behind into the chicane so I don't think we will see much happen into there. Additionally with a much shorter & slower run to the 2nd chicane I don't think we will see much happen there either, Especially if the new chicane spreads cars out as that kind of corner tends to.


I think on the whole I just don't see a need to make the changes as there's nothing really wrong with the layout as it is. If there going to do anything then maybe just make some adjustments to the 1st chicane to open it up a bit & make it a better corner but I just don't see the need to make the big changes that there planning to.

it might be just like the right hand corner after Mulsanne straight at Sarthe

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Could anyone provide the highest speed from the speed trap so far please?

they need to bring back the high banks

I'm convinced that a current F1 car could tear through them at top speed without having to go up the banking. It's just that in the current configuration, all alternative "what if" scenarios lead to at least one person dead.

Seriously though, I'd like to see a track or a section of a track where F1s could ride in packs and slipstream each other, a bit like the first straightaway at the old hockenheim, except wider and longer. Just as long as you let Verstappen sart from the pitlane.