Second US race due in 2013 - New Jersey
- Thread starter Duke
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 3 Oct 2009
- Posts
- 19,893
- Location
- Wales
Either that or a detection at 12 activation after 13 but that might be a bit short.
all the geography books are wrong!
..i saw it mentioned on the news earlier as a cross between spa and monaco ....
how dare they insult SPA it is nothing like that proposed circuit , no doubt those jersey shore guido idiots will make an apearance on the grid.........
I didn't realise there was degrees of 'street'?
The bottom bit will be quite open as its all flat wide road and carpark. The upper bit will be narrower and tree lined. If anything, its more similar to Macau, all be it not quite as extreme (or epic).
I assume this is the right spot?
Last edited:
I would say Monaco is more "streety" than Canada for example.
The bit along the back is about 4 lanes wide for most of it with a couple of bits narrowing so it could be a bit like the Scalextric squeeze track up there.
And yes, that's the spot
Well thing that gets me about street tracks is, theres too much risk.
On an open track like turkey, driver can push harder, if he screws up while pushing harder, he goes wide or spins, loses a bit of time or a few places, but can carry on.
In somewhere like monaco, if you run wide, your race is over. Kinda sucks for the fans, but that's my view at least. So drivers aren't as eager to push more, which results in boring races.
On an open track like turkey, driver can push harder, if he screws up while pushing harder, he goes wide or spins, loses a bit of time or a few places, but can carry on.
In somewhere like monaco, if you run wide, your race is over. Kinda sucks for the fans, but that's my view at least. So drivers aren't as eager to push more, which results in boring races.
Monaco was brilliant this year, just a shame we were robbed a grandstand finish due to the rulebook.
Have you forgot Montreal too? Another street track, JB wins from dead last. Boring eh.
More people complaining about F1 being too unforgiving. Damn tracks like Bahrain having 50metres of tarmac runoff. Half of the time they get back onto the track and end up exactly in the same place they left...
Just an interesting line from the BBC article on this:
They build an F1 race track in the middle of one of America's best known cities, and they expect 100,000 people to attend. Silverstone is an abandoned airfield in the middle of nowhere and get 300,000 people across the 3 days.
They build an F1 race track in the middle of one of America's best known cities, and they expect 100,000 people to attend. Silverstone is an abandoned airfield in the middle of nowhere and get 300,000 people across the 3 days.
Is that not a slightly unfair comparison considering that Silverstone has a long history of holding races, is an excellent track, F1 is massive in the UK, F1 is in its infancy in the US, and entry to the event will probably be very expensive?
If in 5 years it's still only getting 100,000 then fair play, but for a first year I don't see how that is so unreasonable.
F1 has been in the USA for years, and is potentially a massive market. I also doubt the tickets will be any more than the European races.
I'm not saying its going to be a flop, I just think its a pretty unambitious number for the organisers to work with. I mean, aren't they expecting 150,000 people over the 3 days at India this weekend?
I'm not saying its going to be a flop, I just think its a pretty unambitious number for the organisers to work with. I mean, aren't they expecting 150,000 people over the 3 days at India this weekend?
India has a population 3 times larger than the US though who admittedly aren't as well off. Also though India doesn't have any other formulas does it? USA already has Nascar and Indy so there is more competition for bums on seats I suppose.
A lap of the New Jersey track by a dude with a camera on his dashboard. Some people in New Jersey could make a whole lot of money if they left tourists into their homes to see the race from some of the homes right on the track.
He didn't drive into the carpark where the start/finish straight and pit will be, but other than that, it looks right.
some nice long high speed bits with some sweeping corners. Looks good. Like Duke said, it has a similar layout to Canada, and we all love that track
some nice long high speed bits with some sweeping corners. Looks good. Like Duke said, it has a similar layout to Canada, and we all love that track
Soldato
- Joined
- 1 Apr 2004
- Posts
- 2,981
- Location
- Herts, UK
Hmmm, speed bumps on the uphill stretch, why?
Because its a 20mph residential street.
Silverstone is a race track, this is a street track and by the looks of it very limited room for grandstands. Silverstone has also been boosted by the Lewis crowd, the US don't have anything like that.