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Oyster Cove is probably my favourite so far. It is a demanding track, with a variety of fast and slow corners, as well as 3 good overtaking places. It will demand a machine that handles particularly well, due to the quite prominent direction changes.

Turn 1 is a 90 degree flat right-hander, and is the first good passing spot.

The turn 2 complex is a fast right-left-right-left esses section and is also flat.

Turn 3 is the slowest corner on the track, and is shortly after the turn 2 complex. The approach to turn 3 is slightly uphill, and the exit is slightly downhill.

Turn 4 is merely a slightly downhill flat-out kink, leading onto a straight.

The straight begins to run uphill at the exit of turn 4. The track flattens out before the braking zone for turn 5.

Turn 5 is a sharp and slow left hand almost-hairpin and represents the 2nd passing place on the track.

At the exit of turn 5, the track begins to to uphill towards the ultra-fast turns 6, 7 and 8.

Just before the entry to turn 6, the track begins to go downhill.

6, 7 and 8 is a fast, but tricky right-left-right. Turn 6 is downhill and a more gradual corner than 7 & 8. Turn 7 is immediately after 6 and is also fast, but is a sharper turn. Straight out of 7 is the fast, double-apex right turn 8. The track flattens out for turn 8.

Shortly after turn 8 is the turn 9 esses. Turn 9 is an uphill section comprising a right-left-right and is really a medium-speed, slightly spread out chicane.

Between turns 9 & 10 the track begins to go downhill. Turn 10 is a right-left esses combination. The right part is not a hard turn and goes slightly downhill. The left part is a harder turn than the right, and the track flattens out for this turn.

Turn 10 leads you onto the next (and final) straight of the lap. This is a flat straight and takes you up to turn 11 - the 3rd and final passing place on the track. Turn 11 is a flat and slow double-apex 180 degree right-hander, basically comprising 2 90 degree rights. However, the corner is taken as 1 turn.

Straight out of turn 11 is the triple-apex turn 12 left. Turn 12 is uphill and pretty much flat-out. The track flattens out again on the 3rd apes of turn 12.

Immediately after turn 12 is the fast and quite long, right-hand, turn 13.

The final turns, 14 & 15 are the final of the lap and lead you onto the main straight. 14 and 15 are shortly after 13 and are a fast left-right esses section. This section is flat, and the main straight also remains flat.

*The colours on the map have changed. I have now added some tarmac run-off to some corners. They are now grey and the paddock is now blue.

What are your thoughts?