Nando shows you how to tackle Brazilian GP circuit
This is what Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and co. face this weekend. You’ve watched Alonso drive it. Now here’s what he thinks of it:
“It is very bumpy; you have to have suspension that allows you to drive hard whilst not being too uncomfortable. There are some great corners that you really get to attack, and all the elevation changes make it interesting for the drivers.
“Interlagos is quite a short circuit at 4.3km but it offers the prospect of great racing with lots of overtaking, especially going into the tricky turn one. The track is normally pretty dirty when we get there on the Friday but it gets quicker and quicker during the weekend.”
With rain forecast, organisers of the season-closing Brazilian Grand Prix have also added grooves to three sections of the Interlagos circuit to improve drainage ahead of the race weekend.
Should you ever find yourself in an F1 car at Shanghai, you might wish you’d watched this video…
Chinese GP, 2006: Tiago Monteiro (remember him?), driving a not-very-good Spyker, shows you how to negotiate Shanghai’s wide range of technical corners. Not much scenery to look at though.
Force India star gives you heads-up for Sunday’s Japanese GP
Sutil may be a back-marker but he has way more experience at Fuji than most drivers on the F1 grid, thanks to the season he spent racing in Japanese Formula 3, in 2006.
The orange car, in case you’d forgotten already, is a Spyker - remember them? Sutil claimed the now defunct team’s only point of the 2007 season here at Fuji, with an 8th-place finish. He loves the track and may be a good outside bet to again sneak into the points on Sunday.
First look at a lap of venue for night-time GP
Ignore the fact that the guy driving this simulated lap (watch it after the jump) seems to have little concept of the correct racing line to take.
We like the look of the track. It’s fast and wide - like the new Valencia circuit - and should give drivers several oportunities to overtake; we particularly like the final two corners, fast left-handers that will propel the drivers onto the start/finish straight. When the 2009 regulations take effect, we should seem some really exciting racing at these new tracks.
