Back at it this week boys. Suzuka is the circuit, and one of the world's great race tracks. So much history here as well. It's a big twist to have it come so early in the season, but I'm ready
Suzuka certainly is a wonderful track to drive. Turn 1, the esses, Spoon and 130R are all iconic corners. It is technical and demanding. But, like Zandvoort, it's not a superb
racing track with the current generation of Formula 1 cars in my view as there is virtually nowhere to overtake aside from the first turn. You don't want to go two-wide through 130R. The hairpin is tempting, but it rarely comes off, and sometimes you get the short end anyway, like Bottas when he tried to go around the outside of a locked-up Sargent last year. So it makes Suzuka more of a strategy track, your overtakes are going to happen with undercuts and overcuts.
The technical nature of the circuit does though lend itself to mistakes, and there's gravel here. Turns like Degna 1 and 2 are hard to nail, and it's easy to get a wheel or two off here. And of course it it rains then things really kick up a notch.The sort of track where you go forward by standing still, driving consistently and avoiding mistakes. Aggressive moves rarely work here.
I'll add that I grow more outraged by Andretti's rejection every week when I see that Williams STILL has no spare chassis, and couldn't even give Sargent a new car, let alone allow him to drive his own car. He will instead be driving the chassis that Albon smashed up at Albert Park. But Andretti would be amateurs? GTFO
Sort your fantasy and good luck!
