Ringleheim wrote: ↑08 Sep 2018, 05:50
It's not complicated! F1 tracks need a straight that is long enough to allow for slipstreaming. And just as important, the track has to be designed in a way that the following car is able to get right on the ass of the leading car in the final corner leading onto that long straight.
If you have those 2 things, you'll have passing.
Where that is not present, you will often find a lack of passing.
Someone gets it! There's a ton of focus on the corner the overtaking happens in. That really doesn't matter. The thing that matters is whether the corner before the straight allows for following closely enough.
Now that Bernie is gone, it would be great to slowly see all of the Hermann Tilke tracks eliminated.
Why? Some of them were, and/or are great.
• Turkey
• CotA
• Sepang
• China
• Austria
The thing we need to get rid of is the succession of street circuits being introduced because it's easier to get a crowd into a city. All of them are boring successions of 90° turn after 90° turn.
There are about 5 good tracks left in F1. The rest can go.
I call bull, Melborne, Shanghai, Barcelona, Montreal, Spielberg, Silverstone, Spa, Monza, Suzuka, CotA, Interlagos. That's 10 good tracks, and even that's being fairly conservative.