ATL11 Wrote:
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> I always find Hockenheim a fantastic track but is
> Aesthetically ugly! With track edge white lines
> that use spaghetti as a guide, curbs that start
> stop or are just missing (Pit Lane straight) and a
> track width that well just changes (coming away
> from the Hairpin & before the Mobil 1 Kurve).
>
> So I thought I'd have a look at Google Earth to
> see if I was in charge of the Track where I would
> make changes to make it easier to the eye. To my
> surprise the image is March 2000, so it shows the
> old track, but the pictures embedded show how the
> track looks now & frightening to think drivers
> used to race around this place @ 200mph and now
> they are grassed tracks....
>
> 1st Chicane -
> [
www.panoramio.com]
> Ostkurve - [
www.panoramio.com]
> 2nd Chicane -
> [
www.panoramio.com]
>
> & lets not forget Jim Clark -
> [
www.panoramio.com]
yep,some images on google earth are quite old(look at imola for example).luckily those pics are still available
My GPGSL Career