Why does Hermann Tilke never seem to think about the pit exit when he designs a circuit? It may seem trivial, but how are the cars supposed to race, if they can't leave the pits without being whacked by another car in turn1. I agree with David Croft's idea in FP on friday, which was to make a tunnel under the circuit and have the its come out on the straight, e.g. Abu Dhabi. This new flashing warning light is known as retroactive engineering, which means altering a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place, and to be honest, it's a fairly half-arsed solution, but hey, what can you do?
The Abu Dhabi exit I also think is dabgerous as it exits right into the middle of a fast sweeping corner. Maybe he is trying to make it more interesting than just exiting back onto the main straight? Whatever the reason, it seems wrong. Not seen what happens with the Indian one yet.
Use the pits from the support races. Tehy're much better, although you would have to build grandstands opposite them which seems a bit more costly than just fixing the exit but the entry is also the stupidest I've ever seen.
The indian pit exit is good, nothing dangerous as far as i've seen. 've played the circuit on f1 2011, and i think it comes out just before the end of the straight, like malaysia.
Badly organised, horrible entry and exit for pit lane but a good track to be honest. A shame Tilke and the circuit officials didn't sort out the pit lane entry and exit for this year.
Good idea, but i noticed earlier, the support pits seem to suffer from the same issue. If you look at the exit, it comes out right into the corner, and if anyone outbrakes themself, we'd see a repeat of Rosberg vs Dj Squire.
Is everyone making a fuss because Rosberg lost it in the wet and hit Alguersuari? it's not all that different to Canada imo, both exit on the outside of a turn and onto the racing line, and spa and monaco both open into a narrow straight, and then there's valencia, & singapore is another nasty entrance and exit, none of those were tilke tracks. Yes his tracks are ****, but don't blame him because Rosberg isn't particularly good.
I don't see a problem with it, it's a simple concept - don't plough into the side of a car exiting the pits.
But they exit onto the racing line. If you're coming down the straight at full pelt and someone pops up in front of you in the breaking zone, there's not a great deal you can do.
Has anyone played F1 2010? The pit exit on there is different to the one we have currently. It goes around the outside of turn one and you enter the track on the long straight. Since the game was released before the Korean Grand Prix, I thought that the more sensible pit exit featured in the game was part of the original plans for the circuit. Maybe it still is the plan to have that pit exit, but they couldn't do it for financial reasons.
