Re: PRESS Bahrain GP

a425couple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems with the recent big money being spent
> on totally new tracks, we should get some
> great ones.

But we don't.

> Tilkedromes?

Largely because one designer (Mr Tilke) seems to have cornered the market in
designing the new circuits and butchering the old ones, and his circuits
tend to be very similar. If your car works well on one Tilkedrome it
works well on the others; if it doesn't, it doesn't. One decent straight
leading into a slow corner, then a twisty maze of short straights and
2nd/3rd gear corners and back home. Yawn.

And there are very few places on a Tilke circuit where a driver has to
depend on courage and instinct.  

Name a great corner on a Tilke circuit? 

> The sport and the race track owners know
> that passing is a concern.

I'm not particularly concerned with passing. Passing should be hard. 
What I want to see is drivers right on the limit of car control. Not
playing Scalextric round some sanitised little club circuit.

> Why aren't the new tracks great?

They don't need to be; they get the audience anyway.  

pete
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