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Originally Posted by Sodemo
I applaud the track changes on the one hand because it hasn't resulted in barriers moved 500m away and tarmac runoff at every corner, however I am puzzled as to what they were trying to achieve with the flat out section at the back, because you are unlikely to get any passing into that fast chicane.
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DRS zone in the lead in to those fast corners - might have some impact - but then that wasn't a passing opportunity with the previous layout either.
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Originally Posted by S griffin
The track changes have certainly not done any harm, it's still a tough circuit that's not for the faint hearted. Certainly there's a nice flow to it. I feel they needed to make it faster and give the drivers and fans something to get excited about
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Certainly faster and it may lend itself to a better spectacle - probably felt it was time for some changes to freshen the old park up a bit.
Honestly don't know how the changes will go but the race will be the thing that really tells us and before then we're all engaging in conjecture - does appear to really require commitment and getting it 100% right to crack a strong lap & to me that's no bad thing.
One thing of note is that the Supercars had really high levels of tyre degradation - really high - with the new track surface. If that flows onto the F1 cars then the whole approach to the race could have a fair few variables.