At more than 300 kilometers per hour surrounded by walls. This is how the pilots face a lap Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, where this weekend the Canadian Grand Prix.
The former pilot of Formula 1 has parsed for ‘gamers‘ how is a return to the mythical Canadian track, and he has done it with the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso through a state-of-the-art simulator.
The Canadian layout has one of the highest average speeds of the seasonwhich, combined with the walls that flank the track and the asphalt of a semi-urban circuitmake it one of the most demanding in the world.
curves 1 and 2
The first ‘chicane’ is very demanding for the pilots. It is a narrow zone in which you slow down in support, which means that the car becomes very unstable.
From the ‘pole position’ to the braking there are barely 200 meterss, so having a good start will be key at the start. This area usually causes many incidentss, especially on the first lap.
The fork
Turn 10 is the slowest on the circuit. You arrive in eighth gear, at more than 300 kilometers per hour, and slows down to 70 km/h. It is one of the main overtaking points, although most fans remember it for being the place where Robert Kubica had a horrifying accident in 2007 that caused him several fractures in the legs.
The ‘chicane’ of the wall of champions
The last stop on the circuit of champions is one of the most famous areas in the world championship. It arrives after a straight line of more than a kilometer in which the DRS is activated. It goes from 320 km/h to barely 100.
Although the speed is not very high, the pronounced curb inside means that any miscalculation sends the car against the famous ‘Wall of Champions‘, which receives that name for having claimed victims as Michael Schumacher, damon hill, Jacques Villeneuve either Sebastian Vettel.
