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[Tonka]

It appears they're adding a wall-of-death at the bottom of Graham Hill Bend

http://www.stevespla...brandshatch.pdf

[Crafty]

Found this http://www.thebikein...h-changes-2012/

[Richard T]

I find this sentence quite funny

“At the moment, Graham Hill is neither fast enough to be a real challenge on a Superbike or slow enough to be a place for a safe overtake"

[Tenmantaylor]

Why? Why turn one of the trickiest turn ins in british motorsport into a mickey mouse hairpin? If it goed ahead I hope they keep the original as an option. I can't see it improving racing. I recall so many people making mistakes on the exit and getting hassled from behind.

[phil1993]

Horrendous

[Risil]

Why did I get the feeling that when Palmer said

At the moment, Graham Hill is neither fast enough to be a real challenge on a Superbike or slow enough to be a place for a safe overtake

he wasn't going to follow it up with "so we're going to make it faster". Why the obsession with turning every British circuit into the Hungaroring?

Edited by Risil, 12 December 2011 - 18:57.

[Dispenser89]

So he's changing the corner into turn two from the Snetterton 200 circuit. Is this a new singature for all his circuits or something?

[Atreiu]

Holy ****, that's horrendous.

[Fastcake]

Why? Why turn one of the trickiest turn ins in british motorsport into a mickey mouse hairpin? If it goed ahead I hope they keep the original as an option. I can't see it improving racing. I recall so many people making mistakes on the exit and getting hassled from behind.

They could keep the corner, but the run-up to it will not be the same. Look at the new straight heading towards the hairpin, that'll require the original track there to be removed, leaving a sharper bend towards the old corner.

Just a proposal anyway.

[Tonka]

Just a proposal anyway.

They have applied for planning permission from the local council. It's gone beyond a proposal.

[August]

That modification doesn't create an overtaking spot, just ruins a nice corner. Hopefully they'll leave that old section still there.

[midgrid]

What the hell is that?

[Crafty]

Apparently this idea has been abandoned..

[Tom17]

Yuck, that's horrendous! Are they trying to take the skill out of racing too? The whole world is being dumbed down too much

Glad it's been abandoned and hope it's the last we see of that

Tom...

Edited by Tom17, 12 December 2011 - 23:25.

[ClubmanGT]

Looks more like a cheap way to gain some circuit length than a modification of actual merit.

[joshb]

Looks more like a cheap way to gain some circuit length than a modification of actual merit.

Bit like Snetterton.
Lets just cram as many corners into as little space as possible to get it up to FIA standards, instead of just lengthening the straights or rebuilding the old part of the track by the main road.