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Originally Posted by chavez
Adelaide - classic street circuit which is a real test of driver skill. Mistakes have consequences.
AIR - One of the great first corners in the country with the right hander ever tightening. Seen of many great overtakes. And the annoying little left hander on to the banking. No car is ever properly set up for that corner.
Mallala - long straights followed by slow corners. Traction out of the slow corners is at a premium plus the tricky section left hander followed by the right that has drivers often being hungry of the entrance and running out track on the exit.
Of course the facilities at the Bend surpass all three but why build another Eastern Creek?
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Eastern Creek is a proper international Mugello/Catalunya style international circuit, as is the Bend. You could hold the Australian Grand Prix at the Bend, although Phillip Island is pretty good...
Mallala and AIR are pokey little 2km club tracks -- which both have the walls
WAY too close for the comfort of people doing track days in their bog standard 1987 Toyota MR2 road car with zero safety features.
"Mallala - long straights followed by slow corners. " Apart from the small esses section (where you drive directly towards a concrete wall which is very disconcerting), Mallala
doesn't flow at all. In that way it is not a fun circuit at all. It's just accelerate flat out, brake hard, repeat over and over again. :/
Nothing wrong with being small and tight club tracks with walls in close proximity. But that's what they are.
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Originally Posted by chavez
Of course the facilities at the Bend surpass all three but why build another Eastern Creek?
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Eastern Creek is pretty much a gold standard, fast flowing open international circuit like Catalunya, Mugello, Portimao, Silverstone etc. There is a limit to how sophisticated your circuit can be when it is built on flat terrain.