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Originally Posted by anthony81901
Not surprisingly turn 6 is being brought into question. http://www.speedcafe.com/2017/09/18/...andown-shunts/ There have been some big crashes there in recent years, Will Davison in 2010, Lee Holdsworth in 2014 and James Golding in 2016 spring to mind and obviously the events of the weekend just past.
With only a few years left in the circuit, a major rebuild would be undesirable. But this is section of track that was bypassed by the infield section in the 1980s after the circuit was deemed unsafe by the FIA when Sandown hosted sportscars events. Presuming it still exists, perhaps reactivating the infield section may be a more cost effective solution?  |
The infield section was added to extend the track to the minimum length required by the FIA at the time for the Group C cars, it had nothing do with safety concerns over turn 6.
The infield section was ripped up in a number of places last time I saw it (a few years ago) and by now I'd suggest that there wouldn't be much of it left.
Agree with you on the likelihood of turn 6 getting seriously modified with only a couple of years left for the track. Any such changes would need a vast amount of earth works etc. Ultimately, there WERE shunts there on the weekend but all the safety gear did it's job (as it did last year too) so humans were well protected.
No doubt they'll look at the corner safety gear after the weekend but it's hard to see what they could do differently.