Formula One news
Webber unenthusiastic about Catalunya changes
30 January 2007Mark Webber thinks that the upgrades to Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya are unlikely to spice up the racing. A new corner complex has been built prior to the pit straight due to a lack of run-off area. The changes are also believed to enhance opportunities to overtake.
"I don't think it will help overtaking," he said at the Red Bull launch last week. "We might be able to follow a little bit closer onto the straight, but it's not like it's a hairpin, we're still in fifth [gear] through the last corner."
Webber believes that the original corner formation was dangerous but he fails to see how the new corners are a step in the right direction.
"The last two corners were very quick, brilliant if everything stayed on the car - but if you had a failure then you were going in hard, it was a big shunt," the Australian said.
"The first [new] corner is not bad, but the chicane is obviously a deliberate speed-smasher. The drivers didn't see anything of it until the trucks were turning up at the track and the design was done. I thought it was done partly for the motorbikes, but from what I've been told they are going to carry on using the old track," he added.
more news
- 10 Jul.
- 09 Jul.
- 08 Jul.
- 07 Jul.
- 06 Jul.
- 05 Jul.
- 04 Jul.
- 03 Jul.
Homepage
