It just gets worse, suzuka dropped for 07

that infield section is worse than the end of the istnabul circuit. its a joke its all slow right angled corners. The sport just seems to want to kill its self right now

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thats for any one unsure for what the track (go to bottom of the page) looks like its only got 8 corners :S

it was better when the pointy corner at the bottom-left was more curved, and then led straight into the final corner, without the little U shaped bit.

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hmmm could be a high lap quick time race!


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

wow...Toyota do their research well...

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Hmm, I hadn't seen the latest 'addition' to the final sector before... not great, but it'll still work methinks. There will certainly be some overtaking, but the laptimes are likely to be around the 1:10 mark (or faster) so we're looking at potentially 80-90 laps.

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i thought an f1 circuit required a minimum of 14 corners? or am i totally wrong?

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Nope. Austria's A1 Ring gets away with only having 7, and that was a ridiculously fast lap, 1:07 before it was pulled because of tobacco advertising.

Monza has less than 14. Think chicane (2), Curva Grande, chicane (2), 2 Lesmos, Ascari (3), Parabolica. That's only 11.

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here's a picture of fuji:


The track is 2.827 Miles / 4.549 km long

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is this Fuji?





I think it looks quite cool.

it is, but not the last version of it, the last part of the track is completly different now

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fuji wouldnt be that bad.

Even with the changes with the downforce and handling the F1 cars will still get around at highspeed.

I would think about 210+ down the straight, some great overtaking into daiichi.


If you ask me there is no passing because they aint got the guts to do it. If Everybody drove like Sato (without blowing the engine up ) then there would be alot more passing,

If i saw the guy behind me get ready to go kamakazi i shure know i would get out of the way for my own saftey.


The Flanker is gone.

I swear I will stop watching Formula 1 if this crap keeps on going, I'll just lose my interest and just watch it if I happen to turn the TV on and go by the channel showing it.

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thats Fuji

There are 2 Italian races, 2 German races. Why not a second Japanese race?

I like the look of the Fuji circuit. God you can tell that Tilke designed that last section though. He loves those narrowing corners. It is god damn annoying. The cars go through there too slowly. It is just a waste of a perfectly good bit of race track. Maybe he is trying to replicate the stadium section of Hockenheim? But Fuji would make a better addition then Bahrain, Sepang and to a lesser extent Shanghai. Shame to lose Suzuka though. But that is life. Nothing lasts forever.

And as for that crap about F1 losing to GP2, DTM, Masters, et al, F1 would still piss all over the ratings for those other categories, plus, F1 is a world wide event, not just belonging to a select few European nations. Only A1GP travels all around the world and GP2 is a significantly better category then A1GP.

I only follow DTM because of Hakkinen. My interest will leave when he does. Masters is an interesting concept but can they bring it to a world wide audience? GP2 is an exciting category, but is limited to Europe at the expense of the rest of the worlds major emerging markets.

Plus, the whole technological thing with F1. That is why a lot of people watch it. Many of the people who watch F1 don't give a crap what circuit it is. Only the hard core know the nuances of each circuit. Hell, most people wouldn't even know even a quarter of the circuits name in its native language, let alone the names of the individual corners. I've followed F1 for 15 years now and I still don't know what many of the corners are. Except for a few of the big ones (Eau Rouge, 130R, Parabolica, the Bus Stop etc) I've never really bothered to take notice. But that doesn't mean I'm not a hard core F1 fan.

What I mean by all this is that for a vast majority of those who follow Formula 1 and who watch the races, the absence of 1 circuit will be of little consequence. They don't care what the circuit is as long as the spectical is still there, and even with the absence of good overtaking, the spectical is still there.

DTM is treading on thin ice right now.

At the point where it's very existance is uncertain it's best not to talk about it as F1 competition.

But then again it never stopped the usual suspects.

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I think the new Fuji can provide better overtaking and racing for F1 cars than both the old Fuji and Suzuka. Plus I'd rather see new and different venues being used.