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Ferrari guaranteed to be on the podium every race this year...
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Only half of the track is on currently existing roads, so why the walls need to be so close baffles me.
They're claiming from Simulations that lap speeds of 252.8km/h are possible (Monza 264.4, Silverstone 251.6). For that kind of laptime, pole should be a 1:27.935. From the Assetto Corsa hotlap F1 released, that car did a 1:35. This of course assumes that the track will be super-grippy and cleaned up by the time of qualifying, but 8 seconds is a lot to invent when all the corners are already high-speed.EDIT: It also occurs to me that the "fastest street circuit" title is tenuous at best, whilst the Circuit de La Sarthe still contains public roads, I reckon Hunandieres has something to say about it - I'm not about to crunch any numbers though, because I don't see anyone leaping up to defend Jeddah's provenance.
Obsession with imitating Monaco.
Looks like Tilke squinted his eyes at Monaco and vaguely traced it, making sure to break out the ruler wherever inspiration failed to strike.
Bagging on Tilke is certainly getting old, I can agree, however it still boggles my mind that there are four blokes currently certified to design an F1 circuit, and of them only Tilke has ever been called up to the job.I wonder how much actual freedom he had to do anything interesting here. The existing roads are dull, and the section of land given is so long and narrow that it feels like there's very limited options for what you could do with a track that would be appropriate for F1 cars.
I'm not a massive Tilke fan, but I think he got handed a booby prize with this one. I can't imagine that he was given any choice to select roads around the area and took that. For example, you could almost certainly do something more interesting with the roads around that big circular sport stadium complex to the north east.
What stunning views. Looks just like the crappy Formula e track in that regard, just a run through concrete walls among nothingness.