Alex Wurz, the head of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, has weighed in on the critcism that was directed towards the Madring last weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The all-new circuit built in Madrid became the new host of the Spanish Grand Prix this year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, it failed to produce an exciting race, with minimal wheel-to-wheel action throughout the 57-lap grand prix – a feature that was also present in the junior categories.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It led to some criticism from several drivers, but Wurz insisted that creating a new track in a street setting has major constraints.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cTrack design is not as simple as just drawing a few lines on an A3, A4 [sheet] or on a CAD programme,\u201d Wurz told the Sky F1 podcast.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to consider topographics, soil issues, plot boundaries, fire safety rules of a country. You need to run a business, meaning you need to place spectators and all the marshals, etc.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to understand crowd flow, dimensioning of all those items. Infrastructure above, beside, below the track, constructability, budget constraints.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an enormous list which is restricting.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mentioned half of the circuit is in the exhibition centre, and I think that was utilised to what it could be.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can’t ask the promoter to relocate individual exhibition holes, that would be too much. So those 90-degree corners, maybe they’re not to our best taste, but we can respect some of those.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Madring is on the F1 schedule for the long-term, signing a 10-year deal with the sport.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
But following an underwhelming first edition, Wurz insisted there are elements to the layout that can be improved.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere I think things could have been done or could also in the future be optimised, is on the property on the other side of the highway, which was land.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThere wasn’t anything there, so you looked at something which, at least at 50 per cent of the circuit, had no real topographical constraints.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe for us, unknown constraints of civil engineering nature and topography – but the topography actually is really cool.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThey made perfect use of it with Turn 12, the banked corner. Some other aspects, I think there is where the big wins can happen for the future.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Wurz, the head of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, has weighed in on the critcism that was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-895632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}