Belgium Grand Prix 2013, Spa-Francorchamps - Race 11/19

Skeeter said:
The road still exists, but is just an access road and the bit near the track is now run off.

Does the middle bit of Eau Rouge have a name? The left kink at the bottom is Eau Rouge, and the left at the top of the hill is Raidillon, but the sweeping steep right in the middle doesn't really have a name, its just inherited Eau Rouge as a name for the whole 3 turn segment.

Either way, frigging epic corner, which I shall be stood on the apex of on Sunday afternoon :D

Tempted to take some Hovis...
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Just Eau Rouge, the driver's more or less regard that as a straight these days anyway.
 
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On the Kemmel Straight
 
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smr said:
if he doesn't win here or get a podium he's in massive trouble as monza isn't world's away from the characteristics of this track.

He'll be out of contention imo if he DNFs and Vettel wins, for instance, or if the car is just **** here.
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Monza is completely different from Spa. It's predominantly slow corners and acceleration zones.
 
Alibaba99 said:
Monza is completely different from Spa. It's predominantly slow corners and acceleration zones.
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There are long straights both on the rev limiter and long sweeping corners, they aren't completely different at all.
 
Skeeter said:
Does the middle bit of Eau Rouge have a name? The left kink at the bottom is Eau Rouge, and the left at the top of the hill is Raidillon, but the sweeping steep right in the middle doesn't really have a name, its just inherited Eau Rouge as a name for the whole 3 turn segment.
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The right-hander is actually Raidillon and the left flick at the top doesn't have a name. Increasingly commonly over the years the left-right has inherited Eau Rouge and the left known as Raidillon, but that's incorrect.
 
smr said:
if he doesn't win here or get a podium he's in massive trouble as monza isn't world's away from the characteristics of this track.

He'll be out of contention imo if he DNFs and Vettel wins, for instance, or if the car is just **** here.
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It doesn't really matter as no one including myself thought he would be doing this good.
 
Loving the weather forecast. :)

Shame it won't actually happen like that. :D It's Spa... it'll do whatever the hell it feels like at any particular time. :D
 
Epic photo Duke. Dont happen to know if there's a high rez one anywhere do you?

Also, nice weather forecast, looks like ill be packing the waterproof trousers too then :p
 
I feel blessed to have done a track day here and will doing the same in october.

You need to be at the bottom of Eau Rouge to really appreciate how much of an incline it is :eek:
 
Gonzo0 said:
I feel blessed to have done a track day here and will doing the same in october.

You need to be at the bottom of Eau Rouge to really appreciate how much of an incline it is :eek:
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Cool, really wanna do that one day, hopefully next year. What car would you be doing it in btw?
 
smr said:
Cool, really wanna do that one day, hopefully next year. What car would you be doing it in btw?
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It's not cheap and you really have to do 2 days to make it worth while but it's an amazing track to drive. Blanchimont is probably my favourite corner on the track, you can take it at quite a high speed :D

I will be doing it in a Mk1 Focus RS
 
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