The Dot Com Miner

July 2, 2008

Info on F1 Auto Racing Tracks

Filed under: Sports Management — @ 7:49 am

A familiar circuit by and large includes a portion of straight tarmac on which the starting lines are placed. The pit lane, where the F1 drivers enter for petrol & tyres during the Formula One race, and where the F1 constructors operate on the F1 cars ahead of the F1 grand prix race, is typically positioned in parallel to the starting grid. The outline of the rest of the course differs hugely, although in most occasions the course is built in a clockwise direction. Those few tracks that go anti-clockwise (C181& thus have mostly left-handed turns) may cause F1 drivers health troubles owing to the huge lateral forces produced by Formula One engines dragging their body in the reverse direction to normal.

A numerous number of the circuits presently in operation are exclusively built for racing days. The current street race tracks are the Circuit de Monte-Carlo and Melbourne, although street races in other countries come and go (E.g. Las Vegas and Detroit) and plans for such circuits are time and again considered ? most recently London & Beirut. Several other circuits are also fully or partly laid out on normal public roads, for example Spa-Francorchamps. The allure & prestige of the Monaco Formula 1 grand prix are the important motivation why the race circuit is still in use at the moment, since it’s considered not to meet the set safety rules obligatory on other courses. Three-time F1 World champion Nelson Piquet famously portrayed racing in Monaco as “like riding a bike around your own living room”. For info about F1 Grand Prixs, go to F1Tribute.com now.

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