F1 TIMETABLE Fri 28 August 2009
Friday Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30
Friday Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30
Sat 29 August 2009
Saturday Practice 11:00 - 12:00
Qualifying 14:00
Sun 30 August 2009
Race 14:00
Spa-Francorchamps Race Date: 30 Aug 2009 Number of Laps: 44 Circuit Length: 7.004 km Race Distance: 308.052 km Lap Record: 1:45.108 - K Raikkonen (2004)
Lets just get rid of the chicane, that thing looks like its a horrible bastard to drive, an interruption of what otherwise is a wonderfully sweeping track.
Imagine the braking they would have to do for La Source (just like it used to be), it would make a grand overtaking opportunity.
Well.. those recent 'renovations' really screwed up the track.. the chicane should have stayed the way it was all those years.. I loved those super slowmo vids of the cars flying over the curbs!
Well it will be interesting how Mclaren do and if they still remain competitive. Because its a fast track, and lets be honest, the last two werent really.
well lets face it the chicane that was there "all those years" was "renovation" of what was there before but like the current version it was put there to slow the cars down becasue of safety issues. whilst we may not like these sort of things it's better than loosing tracks like this completly, its the same with the monza chicanes, the chicanes that were put into hochenheim's outfield section or most of the alterations that have happened to silverstone since 1972.
loads of people up in arms about how "historic" silverstone lost the GP to donnington yet to me it's a shadow of the track that i first knew
plenty of other circuits we know have been altered a lot too, just do a google for images of interlagos and compare the circuit maps for the current layout and the old full circuit and of course a large part of what we know as spa has nothing to do with the original circuit and was built to connect the public road sections when the circuit was shortened, going further back, the same is true of donnington compared to the prewar circuit and of course monza used to have the banked track in use as part of the main circuit
The old Hockenheim wasn't exactly the most thrillng track either.
And someone needs to tell Legard that there are drivers on the track other than Jenson Button, the number of times he said his name at the start of Valencia.
