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Hometown raceway is an undulating mix of fast, medium and slow speed corners. And for you chicane-haters, there is not one chicane in sight. The track features 16 turns - 9 left and 7 right. There is one great passing opportunity and 2 half chances for passing.
The main straight is flat. Turn 1 is a sharper than 90 degrees left and represents the best passing chance. From the apex of turn 1, the track begins on an uphill climb towards turn 2.
The track flattens out at the entry to turn 2 - a fast left. From the entry to just after the apex, the track goes slightly downhill. Just after the apex, the track begins going uphill again.
Turn 2 flows immediately into the very fast turn 3. Turn 3 is an uphill right.
Turn 3 flows directly into the blind turn 4 left. On the entry to 4, the track begins to go downhill. Turn 4 is a long, medium speed, downhill left-hander.
Immediately after turn 4, one must negotiate the tight and tricky 90 degree turn 5. One must begin braking for turn 5 before the exit of turn 4. What makes this corner tricky is the fact that at the exit of turn 4, the track goes more steeply downhill. This produces an off-camber corner. From the apex of turn 5, the track is flat.
Midway between 5 & 6 the track goes downhill. Turn 6, a 90 degree right, is shortly after turn 5. Just after the entry point of turn 6, the track begins going uphill. A good exit from 6 is essential, in order to get a good run through 7, 8, 9 and down to 10.
Out of turn 6 sees the start of the roller-coaster ride. This section is one for the fast-corner freaks. The track continues uphill all the way from turn 6 through turn 7. Turn 7 is a fast uphill left.
Halfway between 7 & 8, a there is a crest and the track begins to go downhill. Turn 8 is a FAST, long and open turn. At the end of the apex, the track begins to go uphill again.
At the very exit of turn 8 there is a slight crest and the track begins to go gradually downhill.
The track continues on this same gradient through the turn 9 right kink.
The track continues downhill to turn 10. Turn 10 is a 90 degree opening left-hander and is a possible passing opportunity. The approach is downhill and fron the apex the track becomes more steeply downhill. Just before the exit, the track flattens out.
The track remains flat for the double apex left at turn 11.
Just before the 90 degree right (turn 12) immediately after 11, the track begins going uphill.
Just before the fast turn 13 right-hander the track begins going downhill.
Midway down the next relatively short straight, the track becomes flat.
Turn 14 is a 90 degree left-hander. Here, the track is flat and it is the last possible passing spot.
The track remains flat through turn 15 - another 90 degree left whose entry is the exit of the previous corner.
A good exit from the turn 16 right is essential for a good run down the main straight. 16 is immediately after 15 and is also flat.
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