See, only from playing F1 2011, I felt it was a promising layout which was utterly wasted.
Rather than posting it again, I'll just quote my original post:
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Gav
Well something nerdier is that I drove the track in F1 2011, and if that track is a anywhere near accurate (as the other Tilke tracks are in F1 2010), then it's just another Tilke track. Very wide, mahoosive straight, silly, pointless twists and ever-tightening corners. It will probably be billiard-table smooth too.
The first section is like Turkey (only inverted, and lacking as much altitude change), the last corner just screams China.
Turn 10 looks to be up there as one of the most frustrating corners I can recall ever seeing in F1. In F1 2011 you just can't attack it due to that kink on the way out. It's like the Carousel at Road America but then he has a Tilke moment, realises it's a good corner, so @#$%& up the end of it.
I think we realised he'd lost all imagination after a couple of years with China, but this is really just taking the piss.
Bernie, get those guys in who eventually did Singapore - they know how to design a challenging track.
Now, granted, while F1 2011 does generally have very accurate Tilke tracks (apparently they get the blue-prints for the circuits), it can't really be used as a benchmark, though it ought to give an idea.
Back to having a hissy fit, take the back straight. What is the point of having it sag in the middle? If that elevation is natural, make a use for it and make a decent, challenging corner there and have the Tilke Straight® elsewhere. If it's man-made, then what the @#$%& were they thinking? It's utterly pointless.
But unless it's deceptively fast, that Carrousel-like corner (see Road America for those who don't watch motorsports outside of F1) is going to annoy the hell out of me. It looks like he was
this close to making one of his few great corners, like the actual Carrousel, then sneezed and remembered who he was.