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guys can someone give me the info regarding the rating of circuits according to downforce...or atleast the highest,lowest and mid range downforce circuits

Downforce set up

Very High downforce
Monaco
Hungary - Hungaroring

High downforce
Australia – Melbourne
San Marino – Imola
China – Sanghai
Brazil - Interlagos

Medium downforce
Bahrain - Sakhir
Malaysia – Sepang
Europe – Nurburgring
Spain – Barcelona
G. Britain – Silverstone
France – Magny Cours
Germany – Hockenheim
Turkey – Istanbull
Japan - Fuji

Low Downforce
Canada – G. Villeneuve
U.S.A. – Indianapolis
Belgium - Spa

Very low downforce
Italy - Monza

not to sure spa is low downforce track. medium i would say.

SoundMan wrote:not to sure spa is low downforce track. medium i would say.

The long straights meant that most teams used low downforce setups, with only some leaning towards medium setups.


Also, Fuji was also a rather low-downforce setup - just not this year in the rain.

remember when hockenheim was on the last category ...

I also think Fuji would need similar downforce level as indianapolis, being a half straight / half twisty track too. But indy has no quick turn (appart for the banked one), and Fuji has turn 4, which is taken at approx. 260km/h. This one needs reasonable DF level I'd say.

I'd say Bahrein and Spa are on the very low side of the "medium downforce list", while Hockenheim and Magny-cours are on the top, in terms of DF demands.

The banked turn is taken flat-out with far less downforce anyway, so it's inexistent when downforce is considered.

At the same time, the faster corner at Fuji, I suspect, while obviously a consideration, shouldn't be much of a problem either, considering it's still a 1.5km straight we're looking at...

and Valencia will be the next very high down force circuit as it appears to have almost no straight! I guess singapore will be high/medium???

meves wrote:and Valencia will be the next very high down force circuit as it appears to have almost no straight! I guess singapore will be high/medium???

Yes, the circuit's resemblance to Monaco is striking - and it's even set near a marina as well!

Metar wrote: Yes, the circuit's resemblance to Monaco is striking - and it's even set near a marina as well!

I had the same reaction first, but, as discussed on the Valencia-the track thread, the track is much wider and straights seems longer too.

The Valencia track is a fair bit longer than Monaco I believe, and definately wider. So when comparing the track layouts you should scale up the Valencia track-map, like this:



As usual, I could of course be completely wrong.