| Data
taken from last year's inaugural
Grand Prix at the Indianapolis
Speedway should help drivers settle
in a lot more quickly this year but
some corners, notably the infield
around turns 8, 9 and 10, have been
slightly modified. |
| The
cars will cross the start/finish
line reaching a peak speed of over
200 mph before braking hard for the
first comer, a 90 degree right
hander taken in 2nd at 62 mph which
flows into another 90 degree left
hander. This is even tighter and the
cars will remain in 2nd gear,
accelerating to around 70 mph. |
| From
there they accelerate through the
sweeping right hand comer leading to
turn 3, which will be taken in 3rd
gear at around 130 mph. A very short
straight, where the cars will reach
around 143 mph before braking leads
into turn 4 taken at 80 mph. |
| Cars
accelerate away from turn 4 and
approach the 45 degree turn 5 at 105
mph. Hard braking sweeps the drivers
through the 180 degree turn 6 at 75
mph which swings right, through turn
7 on to the back straight at 185 mph
turning 75 degrees left into the 'ess'
bends of turn s 9 and 10 which is
similar to turn 6 but taken at 60
mph. |
| The
curve of turn 11 taken at 80 mph
pulling over 3 G's sets the car up
for the most crucial turn of the
circuit at 12. Slowing fractionally
from 155 mph on the short straight
the drivers will feed in the power
to round the long right hander and
onto the main 'straightaway'
accelerating to their maximum speed
having stayed at full throttle for
around 19 seconds. |
| "The
challenge is to be as fast as you
can, as soon as you can, coming
through 11," said former F1
driver Andrea Montermini. "All
the way from Turn 11 back round to
Turn 1, the speed is very high.
Speeds will be 320 km/h (200 mph)
and more at the end of the
straight." |
