Friday, 10 June 2011
Canadia at last!
First off let's give a massive allaboutlewis congratulatory thumbs up for @checoperez17 for recovering so quickly from one of the most shuddersome shunts seen at Monaco in several years. Good on him!
Last weeks race escaped the reviewing eyes of our team - and it's not because we're black either.
Moving on quickly then let's talk about Canada. Not the country itself, famed for mounted police, hockey scholarships and Molson beer, but the race track at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Yes that's a bit Frenchy-sounding but so too is a great deal of La Canadia.
This circuit is a proper good'un. It's like Monaco in that it's a street circuit, but here the surface is a lot lot smoother and doesn't normally prove to be such a butt-biter. It's a track more suited to drivers with a keen sense of rhythm; the corners flow beautifully from one to the next but only if the drivers can balance the throttle and brakes without jerking too much. The rules here are simple: hesitate and you're in the wall, deviate and you're in the wall; touch another car and you're in the wall. Drive well however and this place will produce some intense, fast and thrilling racing.
DRS and KERS should add to an already thrill-packed weekend. The tight corners are extremely tight so the extra horsepower boost available will aid drivers' exit speeds. As long as the DRS zone has been plonked in the right place there should be plenty of opportunities for slipstreaming and passing into the first sector. Anyway - let's see how it pans out.
In first practice at the moment with 34 minutes to go and HOT OFF THE PRESS it's the young gun Sebarstian Vettle who ploughs his Red Bull car straight into the barriers! Oh noooooooo! Poor laddy!
Last weeks race escaped the reviewing eyes of our team - and it's not because we're black either.
Moving on quickly then let's talk about Canada. Not the country itself, famed for mounted police, hockey scholarships and Molson beer, but the race track at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Yes that's a bit Frenchy-sounding but so too is a great deal of La Canadia.
This circuit is a proper good'un. It's like Monaco in that it's a street circuit, but here the surface is a lot lot smoother and doesn't normally prove to be such a butt-biter. It's a track more suited to drivers with a keen sense of rhythm; the corners flow beautifully from one to the next but only if the drivers can balance the throttle and brakes without jerking too much. The rules here are simple: hesitate and you're in the wall, deviate and you're in the wall; touch another car and you're in the wall. Drive well however and this place will produce some intense, fast and thrilling racing.
DRS and KERS should add to an already thrill-packed weekend. The tight corners are extremely tight so the extra horsepower boost available will aid drivers' exit speeds. As long as the DRS zone has been plonked in the right place there should be plenty of opportunities for slipstreaming and passing into the first sector. Anyway - let's see how it pans out.
In first practice at the moment with 34 minutes to go and HOT OFF THE PRESS it's the young gun Sebarstian Vettle who ploughs his Red Bull car straight into the barriers! Oh noooooooo! Poor laddy!
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