View Poll Results: What is your favorite F1 corner?
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11-15-2010, 10:19 AM
#23
There's no single answer to "best F1 turn." In fact, there are exactly 3 answers. 
Here they are.
1) For F1 drivers, you have to go with the most intimidating and infamous high-speed turns, the real "separates the men from the boys" turns. 130R is such a turn, but it ultimately loses to the all-time champ, Spa-Francorchamp's Eau Rouge.
2) But how many of us are F1 drivers? Watching F1 cars parade single-file through 130R or Eau Rouge, while intellectually impressive, ultimately leaves us wanting more action. What's needed is the best racing corner; not in terms of sheer overtaking opportunity (there are plenty of hairpins and 90-degree bends after long straights), but in terms of providing drivers, lap after lap, with a choice: wait another lap stuck behind your opponent, or take the risk that he isn't willing to take. Here again, 130R has provided some rare jump-out-of-your-seat moments, while Spa's Pouhon rewards the patient driver who has studied his rival's lines and technique. But for lap-after-lap driver challenge and racing excitement, neither of them can compete with Interlagos' Senna S, the evil, downhill, off-camber conclusion to Brazil's start-finish straight.
3) But even racing excitement is somewhat generic -- Eau Rouge and the Senna S would provide their unique challenges to a Spec Miata driver just as much as an F1 driver. What makes F1 so special is the sheer, raw cornering power of the cars, and that's precisely what's so difficult to genuinely appreciate when watching them. A single high-speed turn like 130R or Eau Rouge just doesn't convey it; what's needed are moderately high-speed esses where that F1 aero is fully functioning and the cars change direction so fast that it creates a cognitive disconnect in the viewer: "Dear God, is this video even real or is it a child's slot car? Was the footage sped up somehow? Surely no car, and no human driver, could possibly do that!" For sheer congitive dissonace, Monte Carlo's Piscine is notable, as are Suzuka's decreasing-radius esses; but they both pale in comparison to Silverstone's Maggots/Becketts. Whether it's in-car, aerial view, trackside, or long-perspective advancing or retreating shots, this set of turns is unmatched worldwide for conveying the insane, other-worldly capabilities of F1 cars and drivers.
So how did I vote? I think you can guess.
Here they are.1) For F1 drivers, you have to go with the most intimidating and infamous high-speed turns, the real "separates the men from the boys" turns. 130R is such a turn, but it ultimately loses to the all-time champ, Spa-Francorchamp's Eau Rouge.
2) But how many of us are F1 drivers? Watching F1 cars parade single-file through 130R or Eau Rouge, while intellectually impressive, ultimately leaves us wanting more action. What's needed is the best racing corner; not in terms of sheer overtaking opportunity (there are plenty of hairpins and 90-degree bends after long straights), but in terms of providing drivers, lap after lap, with a choice: wait another lap stuck behind your opponent, or take the risk that he isn't willing to take. Here again, 130R has provided some rare jump-out-of-your-seat moments, while Spa's Pouhon rewards the patient driver who has studied his rival's lines and technique. But for lap-after-lap driver challenge and racing excitement, neither of them can compete with Interlagos' Senna S, the evil, downhill, off-camber conclusion to Brazil's start-finish straight.
3) But even racing excitement is somewhat generic -- Eau Rouge and the Senna S would provide their unique challenges to a Spec Miata driver just as much as an F1 driver. What makes F1 so special is the sheer, raw cornering power of the cars, and that's precisely what's so difficult to genuinely appreciate when watching them. A single high-speed turn like 130R or Eau Rouge just doesn't convey it; what's needed are moderately high-speed esses where that F1 aero is fully functioning and the cars change direction so fast that it creates a cognitive disconnect in the viewer: "Dear God, is this video even real or is it a child's slot car? Was the footage sped up somehow? Surely no car, and no human driver, could possibly do that!" For sheer congitive dissonace, Monte Carlo's Piscine is notable, as are Suzuka's decreasing-radius esses; but they both pale in comparison to Silverstone's Maggots/Becketts. Whether it's in-car, aerial view, trackside, or long-perspective advancing or retreating shots, this set of turns is unmatched worldwide for conveying the insane, other-worldly capabilities of F1 cars and drivers.
So how did I vote? I think you can guess.
12-07-2010, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by twohoos,Nov 15 2010, 12:19 PM
There's no single answer to "best F1 turn." In fact, there are exactly 3 answers. Here they are.
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So how did I vote? I think you can guess.
Here they are....
So how did I vote? I think you can guess.
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