What makes a "drivers' circuit?"

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If the mistakes are highly staked then the best will prevail.

So yea, i´m sure Singapore is a driver´s track in atleast one way.
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I'm not sure if it is really significant yet considering there have only been 4 Singapore GPs and most of those drivers were in the best cars. I think comparing the top ten from Singapore and then the top 10 from Monaco for each season would be more revealing. I don't know if anything statistically significant could be found though as there are a lot of variables.

Abu Dhabi probably deserves some mention as well. It has a lot of slow/medium speed corners and the first sector is also pretty difficult from what I've read.

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I personally have changed my definition of a driver's circuit. I think it should be defined as a circuit or circumstance where overdriving costs you a lot more than underdriving. Those who are confident will get to the limit - and those who aren't will either overdrive in a blind attempt to match a target laptime, thus binning it in the wall or spinning, or will underdrive to find comfort in the safety of knowing they have a margin of error.
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Websta wrote:Abu Dhabi probably deserves some mention as well. It has a lot of slow/medium speed corners and the first sector is also pretty difficult from what I've read.
I personally find Sector 1 in Abu Dhabi fascinating. Some drivers go tight through 2 for a wide entry into 3 - or some maximise a lot of road in 2, turn the car tighter in 3 and exit.

I personally keep c*cking that up whenever I'm on a game/sim - I can never get the nose pointed at the right time into 3. I always undershoot or overshoot.
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raymondu999 wrote:
Websta wrote:Abu Dhabi probably deserves some mention as well. It has a lot of slow/medium speed corners and the first sector is also pretty difficult from what I've read.
I personally find Sector 1 in Abu Dhabi fascinating. Some drivers go tight through 2 for a wide entry into 3 - or some maximise a lot of road in 2, turn the car tighter in 3 and exit.

I personally keep c*cking that up whenever I'm on a game/sim - I can never get the nose pointed at the right time into 3. I always undershoot or overshoot.
I agree, I can never seem to get that complex of corners right and always end up running wide over the runoff. It's a bit of a shame that the rest of the lap isn't as flowing.

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I try multiple lines through there, such as a tighter line in 2 to widen the corner of 3 but by the time I start turning into 3 I know I'm going to hit the runoff at the exit. But a bit more front wing should ease the problem slightly.
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