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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Dummies Guide to Formula One Motorsport Courses

A typical Formula One track by & large includes a portion of straight road on which the starting lines are positioned. The pit lane, where the F1 drivers drive in for fuel & tyres during the motor race, & where the teams work on the Formula One cars prior to the F1 grand prix motor race, is traditionally positioned in parallel to the starting rows. The blueprint of the rest of the race course changes greatly, even though in some examples the race track is designed in a clockwise direction. Those few race circuits that go anti-clockwise (and consequently have mostly left-handed turns) might cause F1 drivers neck problems owing to the huge sideways forces generated by Formula One machines dragging their body in the opposite direction to normal. For all the latest F1 Results go now to F1Tribute.com.

Most of the race courses presently in use are exclusively constructed for racing days. The current street circuits are the Circuit of Monte Carlo & Melbourne, Australia although grand prix in other cities come and go (For Example, Las Vegas and Detroit) & plans for such grand prixs are constantly discussed ? recently London & Beirut. Quite a few other circuits are also entirely or partially laid out on public roads, for example Spa-Francorchamps. The glamour & regard of the Monaco motor race are the principal motivation why the track is still in use these days, since it is believed not to meet the tough safety rules obligatory on other courses. Three-time F1 World champion Nelson Piquet famously illustrated racing in Monaco as “like riding a bike around your own living room”.

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