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Compare t8 - t9 area to the map.



It's different. T2 also seems to have a bigger radius.

I think the T9 is either going to spoil the flow and make the whole 1st sector awful, like T5 does to 2nd sector at India. Or the T9 is the place where people can either make or break their fast laps and maybe giving better overtaking chance for a following car for T11.

I can't really tell if that's a good modification or not.

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What I mainly read on this forum these days is "waaaa waaaa, I hate DRS, I hate KERS, the DRS zone is too short, the DRS zone is too long, overtaking is too easy, there's too much run off, the straights are too long, the straights are too short, I don't like the paint on the runoffs, there are too many hairpins, Tilke is ruining F1 tracks" etc etc. just get over it ffs, we've had one of the best F1 season's ever yet people still complain.

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Yes the racing has been great this year. BUT we complain about the tracks because every track after Sepang that Tilke has designed looks pretty much exactly the same and has zero characteristics. Even Turkey has the same pointless sequence of corners as all his other tracks after turn 1 to 8. Sepang I believe was his first full track, and in my opinion the best, free flowing and interesting.

lol, that's a funny way to put it because divebombing is usually frowned upon as a wild move at best, if not completely botched and desperate (and therefore entertaining, obviously ). I hated those hairpins look at first, but I have to admit they easily produce good racing, cross-overs and side-by-side runs after exit.

Too bad the 7-8-9 is not the fast esses leading to a very high speed approach to 11, which the map misleads into thinking. It will be a bit less spectacular to watch but may improve racing in the pack. Braking for T8 also looks tricky.

Could be wrong but this is the last fully permanent new circuit to join the F1 calendar for some time, Russia and New Jersey are both fully or in part temporary circuits

I've got low expectations for this race. Even though I've seen no action on track so far I already like it more than Indy.

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Indy was a pretty poor layout, though. It was just a novelty to race on a small part of the oval, and with a great place to overtake at the first corner. Then again, Indy actually had some grass and gravel, rather than the current trend of painting white lines on an expanse of tarmac.

I don't know what I'm looking forward to most. The Grand Prix or the latest rounds of the combine harvester demolition derby.

I'm most looking forward to the chilli cook-off followed by the hot dog eating contest.

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This. So much this. I hope COTA will put on a good race, and I REALLY want to like it. But they make it tough. Turn 1s awesome hill is kinda wasted on a hairpin, but it isn't too bad. The esses are NOT Silverstone like (just watch the video to see), and the final part has been stealthily changed to a horrible 90 deg low-medium speed corner, killing the little flow it had. There is a big hill on the backstraight which isn't being utilised for anything. Then the end of the lap is just 2 stadium sections, because they didn't have a stadium section yet.

It's so close to being awesome but it doesn't fullfil that potential. I hope it provides a good race, but as a race circuit they could've made it better by opening out those esses and making turn 1 more like Red Bull Ring, rather than a hairpin.

The Westboro Baptist Church will be protesting the race, apparently.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/sp ... rmula-one/



Hooray for the crazies.

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That must be a first, for internet forums, TBK, F1 and global motorsport in general. To have that bunch of loons featured in a motorsport based discussion.

According to them we're all *a word beginning with F that I cannot say because I'll get banned but sounds like "bags"*.

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I think about inventing a cult sometimes because I want the chicks and the money.

That bunch haven't invented a religion but simply live their lives according to the scripture and condemn everyone else in the world for not doing the same, as that is what the great book says (according to their interpretation).

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T9 will be flat out, look in the already famous videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5gLoxNE7ms

I'm one hell of a moody person, though. Today after seeing it again, the layout didn't seem so crappy to me. I still don't like most of it but T7-T8 isn't so bad, as well as the penultimate corner. I really like T6 as it remembers me Fuji's 100R.

As Tobias pointed out, I fear T16-T18 will also be flat, which will be a shame

Bernie will be delighted ... despite having NASCAR and IndyCar on their doorstep, the zealots have chosen to picket F1 as a symbol of idolatry, thus proving its importance ...

It's okay-ish. I mean, the stadium section's a bit pointless but aside from that, it's not too shabby. Should produce some good racing.

I'd prefer a fast left, akin to Suzuka's 130R as T12 instead of the stadium section. It would make the circuit a lot more flowing as well as create an overtaking opportunity for the brave at T16. That being said, with current F1, it's not going to happen. Too dangerous or some nonsense like that.

Still, always looking forward to new tracks. Bad thinking from FIA to overlap it with NASCAR finale though, as it won't be able to compete in the US.

Anyway, I love the fact that every year there is a new track. Singapore, Valencia (08), Abu Dhabi (09), Korea (10), India (11) and Austin (12), keeps things interesting!

You lack originality. Your post is just a plain, generic description of any cult.

maybe that will make Alonso turn from the underdog to the favourite again, after the missed race is finished