Mogster wrote: ↑03 Sep 2021, 19:32
JordanMugen wrote: ↑03 Sep 2021, 17:21
Hoffman900 wrote: ↑03 Sep 2021, 17:15
If they can run here, they can run at Road America.
Definitely.
It’s not the same. Zandvoort has some huge, banked, areas of gravel covering the faster sections. There are areas of Elkhart Lake with really serious run off problems, they can’t be fixed because of the underlying terrain or the surrounding stuff like roads and railways. The Kink at Elkhart Lake is like pre 1994 Tamburello at Imola…
The Kink has issues, but it’s no more dangerous than many of the street circuits F1 runs on or an oval.
The gravel traps have to be banked to keep the cars from going airborne off a banked corner. The corner at the end of the straight at Mid Ohio is a classic example of what happens when you don’t do that.
Zandvoort has a safer barrier on that final corner. An F1 car going left into that barrier is going to be ugly (over correction) and I don’t think they’re as tested in those type of impacts like Indy Cars have been.
There is one barrier at Zandvoort that juts out 35* (maybe a little less) to the racing surface and it’s not far off from the exit curbing (drivers are looking straight at it leaving the second to last corner). It’s at the entrance to the final corner. Besides being an incredible impact, it’s going to throw a car into the rest of the field at what isthe fastest corner on the track.
I’m sure if the Governor of Wisconsin wrote Liberty a check on the taxpayers dime, it would happen. Seems to work everywhere else…
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