Tracks features informally named after drivers
#1
Posted 16 November 2012 - 04:39
Have there been other structures or parts of circuits that have been unofficially named after drivers?
#3
Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:59
#4
Posted 16 November 2012 - 08:03
And then, of course, there all those straights and corners at Brands Hatch that were renamed after drivers many years ago. Appelations that, in my mind, remain totally unofficial and downright heretical!
Edward
#5
Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:44
Also known with good German humor as the Grillstrecke. (barbeque place)I think that the scene of Lauda's accident at the Ring has been unofficially named as the Lauda Kink or Lauda Kurve.
And then, of course, there all those straights and corners at Brands Hatch that were renamed after drivers many years ago. Appelations that, in my mind, remain totally unofficial and downright heretical!
Edward
#6
Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:47
AAGR
#7
Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:58
I seem to remember "Herbert's Trench" on the exit of the then new Luffield, '91?Weaver's Trench at Silverstone.
#8
Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:59
#9
Posted 16 November 2012 - 11:11
#10
Posted 16 November 2012 - 17:23
Probably more than one such named corner in the British forestsNot forgetting 'Mikkola's bend' in a forestry special stge in North Yorkshire where Hannu Mikkola crashed a Ford Escort on an event ....
AAGR
Edited by ExFlagMan, 16 November 2012 - 17:23.
#11
Posted 16 November 2012 - 17:34
#12
Posted 16 November 2012 - 17:37
#13
Posted 16 November 2012 - 21:03
Probably more than one such named corner in the British forests
Only one "Mikkola's Bend" - in Dalby Forest (and very recently discussed on BritishRallyForum). Sadly also where an Icelandic driver later lost his life and where a memorial is now situated. Rumoured to be used next week on the "Roger Albert Clark" Rally.
#14
Posted 17 November 2012 - 00:15