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I said CURRENT F1 track, Lee. Keep guessing people.
Pitt Point is a track all about rhythm.
You blast down the flat main straight and mash the brake pedal for the tight left turn 1. This is a good passing place.
Turn 2 is a long, flat-out, left bend. The first part of it goes slightly uphill. There is a crest right at the very end of the turn where the track starts going downhill.
Turn 3 is a tricky, double apex right. The track runs downhill to the first apex, where the track flattens out. The track remains flat for the second apex.
Shortly after turn 3, the track begins uphill again. It continues uphill through the right-hand part of the turn 4 esses. On the apex of the left part of these esses, the track flattens out abruptly, creating a crest. This is a pretty quick esses combination.
The track remains flat for the tight left (turn 5) shortly after the esses. This is slightly tighter than 90 degrees.
There is another esses section shortly after turn 5 in a similar configuration to 4. Turn 6 is also right-left and reasonably quick. The track goes uphill right through the sequence.
Turn 7 is is a flat left-hander. It is slightly more than 90 degrees.
Turn 7 runs into yet another esses section. It is right-left again, but tighter than the previous ones. Turn 8 runs downhill.
There is a flat short shute after turn 8. This leads into the slightly downhill left-right esses. The turn 9 esses are flat-out and very fast.
Turn 9 leads you down the back straight. It continues downhill until just before the braking zone for turn 10, where it flattens out.
Turn 10 is a left hairpin. It is slow, and is the second good place to pass on the track. It is a flat corner.
There is an uphill short shute to turn 11, a reasonably quick, uphill right.
Immediately after 11 is the turn 12 chicane. It is right-left, slightly uphill, and the 2nd part is a little tighter than the first part.
The chicane leads you on the run home, which features the most demanding corner on the track. Shortly after 12, the track continues uphill down a short shute. Turn 13 is a flat-out right kink. At the apex of 13, the track begins slightly downhill.
Shortly after 13 is turn 14. Along with turn 9, the highlight of the lap. 14 is only slightly downhill, a little off camber, and a very fast left.
Soon after turn 14 is the final turn, turn 15. This is a slow to medium speed, flat left-right esses, leading you onto the main straight.
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