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| Gilles
Villeneuve Circuit - Canada |
| Canadian
Grand Prix - 15 June 2003 |
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| Race
Distance : |
305.049km
/ 189.548m |
| Number
of Laps : |
69 |
| Lap
Distance : |
4.421km
/ 2.747m |
| Lap
Record : |
R.
Schumacher 1.17.205 |
| Qualifying
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13:00
- Jun 8/2002 |
| Race
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14:00
- Jun 9/2002 |
| From
the starting grid, the cars accelerate
to 170 mph and swing quickly through
Turn 1 as the track waves right and
left. Once through they brake heavily,
pulling -3.8g at the entrance to Virage
Senna. This hairpin is marked by a tight
90-degree turn to the left before the
hairpin itself turns the cars through
180 degrees and it is negotiated at 45
mph in 2nd gear. Cars quickly accelerate
to 150 mph and 5th gear as the track
curves gently to the right. A series of
bends (Turns 2-6) see the cars down to
3rd gear and speeds averaging 60 mph as
the circuit turns to the right. |
| Turn 7
marks the Pont de la Concorde which
occupies about a third of the track
length. This is a long straight, broken
up by a quick right-left turn - Turn 8
and Turn 9 - that can be negotiated in
3rd gear. Decelerating from 170 mph, the
right bend is entered at 50 mph and then
exited at 65 mph. The lead-up to Turn
10, which marks the Virage du Casino, is
done at full throttle with a top speed
of around 170 mph. This hairpin comes at
a point where the entrance and exit run
side by side, and so it gives the
drivers a chance to see who is behind
them. It is a relatively wide portion of
the track and it is common to see
overtaking manoeuvres here as cars try
to out-brake one another. It is also the
slowest part of the track, with cars
braking down from 180 mph to around 40
mph. |
| Patients
in the nearby hospital get a good view
of the cars accelerating up through the
gears along the Casino Straight. This is
the fastest section of track with cars
hitting speeds of 190 mph in top gear.
Turn 11 marks the hardest braking point
on the circuit with drivers experiencing
-3.8g. This was modified for the 1996
Grand Prix, from the Casino Bend (Turn
12 and Turn 13) which used to be a
chicane, slowing the cars down into the
final straight. Now it is much
shallower, with cars swinging through it
at around 60 mph before accelerating
again as they cross the Start-Finish
line. |
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