Valencia Street circuit

[Allyc85]

OK 1st Lap turn 2 is where it will all go wrong this weekend for someone.

Any other suggestions?

Where the barrier sticks out a bit before the bridge could be interesting if they get on the gas to early

[keysersoze]

lol yea, because watching a grainy onboard video gives you the same sense of speed dosnt it. Some of the rubbish people come out with to show off that daddys brought them a flash kart....

For that matter, what makes you think you know jack about me? Because for your lousy mis-information, I pay for my own kart racing.

And while you are busy being a boorish know-it-all, tell us what the video being "grainy" has to do with the speed of the cars.

And WTF is a "flash kart?"

[ShiftingGears]

Oh, they did have names.

But then the FIA told the organisers that "FuzzyWuzzy Corner" was bang out of order.

[Big Ben]

I've just arrived from Valencia. I visited the track last Sunday and I have to say I find it very interesting but that must be because this is the closest I have ever got to F1.

[philipbain]

Apparently there are concerns about the join of the swing bridge, the track surface is uneven, apparently the difference is as much as 15mm!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69926

To be honest I think its much a do about nothing, a much more severe example is what happened at the 2005 San Jose Champ Car race when they ran over tram tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQOUKHVydqc

Sadly when they went back a year later the section had been smoothed out, much safer for sure but not nearly as spectacular!

[ioan]

Apparently there are concerns about the join of the swing bridge, the track surface is uneven, apparently the difference is as much as 15mm!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69926

To be honest I think its much a do about nothing, a much more severe example is what happened at the 2005 San Jose Champ Car race when they ran over tram tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQOUKHVydqc

Sadly when they went back a year later the section had been smoothed out, much safer for sure but not nearly as spectacular!

If you take into account that F1 cars have no suspensions than you can imagine that going over it 70 times at high speed could destroy one's back?!
Just a thought!

[Dave B]

I'm watching the coverage with the help of the excellent aerial photo on pp8-9 of Autosport, which is making identifying the corners easier

[Whyzars]

I was skeptical, but after seeing an onboard from F3, I think the Valencian Street circuit is damn good. It's got sweeping straights, tight double apex corners, fast kinks and sequences of corners requiring total commitment. And concrete barriers to punish mistakes.
Thoughts?

In my opinion it had all the ingredients for great racing but the camera shot was unable to stay with a car for longer than ONE second and that made the race very difficult to watch at times. The only time the cars were in shot for longer than 1 second was when the car was stopped or stopping as that gave the camera time to get in.

I was surprised at how difficult it was to watch a car progress around the course - even during qualifying. On the main straight the camera's were only able to fix on a driver for a very brief period and the only time an extended link was given it was for an in-car camera and not the street side. There was no way to get a 'feel' for the speed on the straight if that makes sense. The Producer must've been very tired by the end of the day with all that switching camera angles.

The Valencia circuit was by far the worst race of the year in my opinion due to its poor showing on television and the racing wasn't memorable either but that may be because of the camera's.

Just my opinion.

[cosmicpanda]

I rather appreciated the fact that the cars were always turning, and yet it was a fast track, rather than the usual sort of straight - corner - straight thing that we get