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Should Grosjean be parked for a race or two?
Yes, he needs a time out 65%  65%  [ 44 ]
No, a grid penalty is enough 35%  35%  [ 24 ]
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phil1993
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The off camber corners at Abu Dhabi don't exactly help the situation either, its hard to drive them alone so trying to set someone up for a pass is too hard.


To quote Kimi, 'The first few corners are quite good, but the rest of it is shit'.

I have no idea why they have off camber corners there. It just doesn't work.

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Yas Marina would greatly benefit from the increasing the exit width and banking the corners of Turns 7 and 9.

Turn 7 has all that space to the right which could be used to extend the track width right to that armco.

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mclaren2008 wrote:
Yas Marina would greatly benefit from being rebuilt


FTFY

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mclaren2008 wrote:
Yas Marina would greatly benefit from the increasing the exit width and banking the corners of Turns 7 and 9.

Turn 7 has all that space to the right which could be used to extend the track width right to that armco.

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so dangerous :cry:
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phil1993 wrote:
mclaren2008 wrote:
Yas Marina would greatly benefit from being rebuilt


FTFY


What I don't get is that they had limitless budget, limitless land and it could have been one of the very best tracks but it turned out to be one of the worst.
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a looping would be nice.
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mclaren2008 wrote:
phil1993 wrote:
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Yas Marina would greatly benefit from being rebuilt


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What I don't get is that they had limitless budget, limitless land and it could have been one of the very best tracks but it turned out to be one of the worst.


Because they wanted to build grandstands near to the track, over a run off and have the track go under the hotel.

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That's probably why Turkey created so many passing spots because the corner onto the back straight was not too slow and there was a massive kink right in the middle


Correct. Turkey's S3 and pit straight was ideal for overtaking. T9/T10 was medium speed, which allowed cars to close and then 'Faux Rouge' allowed the driver behind to close up - like when Vettel tried to pass Webber in 2010. This then allows the drivers to take alternative lines through the mickey mouse chicane and onto the pit straight. A slow hairpin by itself just doesn't work.


If that is indeed correct, then why did we see so many poor Turkish GP's with very few overtakes?

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Going there from thursday on, 4 guys and 48 liters of beer. Goal is to have my jacket signed by Kimi, who is the last recent topdriver missing on it. :D


Wow thats a hell of a lot of beer for 4 guys :D
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for a moment there I thought it was the latest Belgian GP to date. But apparently it was driven on September 16th in 2007.
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I wish i had the money to go this GP one day. Maybe next year. Few of my finnish friends will be going there.. Actually one left yesterday. :D
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any idea which year this was? more info would be cool.

must have been before 1998 with the police reforms. These guys really were tough and had so much power to do with you whatever they wanted. Thankfully a bit more relaxed now.
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our Belgian weather forecast has some chance of rain for Saturday now as well.
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They have added artificial grass behind the kurbs at Pouhon to replace the green paint thats been there since the gravel was removed.
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that's a good move.
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Rather unsurprising press conference; virtually every question from the floor is for Michael and most of them concern his 300th anniversary.
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Here's the transcript from today's press conference
http://www.f1zone.net/news/thursday-pre ... ium/15458/

The one about Button's Spa jinx is mine, even if he doesn't really have a massive jinx there :p

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Rather unsurprising press conference; virtually every question from the floor is for Michael and most of them concern his 300th anniversary.

And where did you see this???
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Sooo, is anyone going to crash tomorrow and in which corner :8: ?
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