Formula 1 Emirates Gran Premio dell'Emilia-Romagna 2020

stimaro · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:12 am

Karan wrote:

Was visiting Bologna a couple years ago and decided to drive down to visit Imola for the afternoon. Was kinda surreal walking around the quiet deserted track and looking at the corners in person recollecting all these moments from races I'd seen on TV.

I was there in 2008, had the same feeling.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:00 pm

was there in 2015, the park inside the track was empty and calm and it was a beautiful day (the car in the pits is a Lamborghini Aventador taking some laps)

about the track itself, technology on impact reducing has developed to we could had Tamburello back as the way it was. The problem is that they aren't willing to spend that much neither Liberty want to hold another race in Italy. That's too bad, because italians really deserve two races, just like the portuguese deserve theirs

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:19 pm

The region of Emilia-Romagna is quite a sweet spot for tourism. You have the Ferrari factory and museums in Maranello, another Ferrari museum in Modena, the Maserati factory and the Pavarotti museum there either. Bologna is such a great place to visit and stay and also has the Ducati factory. And heading southeast there's Imola and Faenza and then the beaches of the Adriatic coast

you can spend easily a week there and not get bored (just fat haha)

NVirkkula · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:07 pm

I was there in June 2004.

Picture taken with my phone of the era, Nokia 6660.

Karan · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:50 pm

LucasWheldon wrote:

The region of Emilia-Romagna is quite a sweet spot for tourism. You have the Ferrari factory and museums in Maranello, another Ferrari museum in Modena, the Maserati factory and the Pavarotti museum there either. Bologna is such a great place to visit and stay and also has the Ducati factory. And heading southeast there's Imola and Faenza and then the beaches of the Adriatic coast

you can spend easily a week there and not get bored (just fat haha)

Yeah exactly. Visited all of this places and it's a motorsport tourist's dream destination. Don't forget the Lamborghini museum/factory which is a must visit too. I also managed to get into the Pagani factory a few years ago before they expanded. Was pretty cool, such a small unassuming place on a quiet street.

Metzo · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:02 pm

mclaren2008 wrote:

The destruction of Imola in 1995 was worse than Hockenheim. They forgot about making overtaking spots. The Villeneuve chicane is one of the worst corners in racing.

are you serious? the Villeneuve chicane is a blast to drive in sims. there are so many bad circuits built since the year 2000. and yet you complain about Imola?

half of the random modernish f1 circuits are dogshit compared to imola.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:09 pm

Agree with both. Imola beforehand was much better. But I'll still take the new one over most Tilkedromes any given day.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:09 pm

This track is one of the few that don't allow mistakes

and that's why Bottas will do one of those

James B · PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:35 pm

I don't think he'll make a mistake. He'll be top in FP1, FP2 and FP3. Then in qualifying Lewis will pull one out of the bag in Q3, finish 10 seconds up the road in the race, and Bottas will be stood in the media pen looking glum and confused

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:13 pm

more possible is that he'll try to push in his first stint, kill his tires first and call for a different strategy to team, which will be promptly refused. Then he finishes 30 seconds behind Hamilton

micha · PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:16 pm

no spectators this weekend

De Cesaris fan · PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:25 pm

It'll be interesting to see if the lack of Friday running has any impact on the weekend. It depends how much information the teams can gain from the simulator, and how accurate it is.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:23 am

Metzo wrote:

mclaren2008 wrote:

The destruction of Imola in 1995 was worse than Hockenheim. They forgot about making overtaking spots. The Villeneuve chicane is one of the worst corners in racing.

are you serious? the Villeneuve chicane is a blast to drive in sims. there are so many bad circuits built since the year 2000. and yet you complain about Imola?

half of the random modernish f1 circuits are dogshit compared to imola.

Ok Villeneuve might be a great corner to drive but it doesn't promote any passing into Tosa.

Given that this weekend is a fill in for cancelled races, track issues are of secondary importance. At least there's a race

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:53 am

Villeneuve is definitely a great pair of corners in a sim, but I think the second part is just too fast for passing into Tosa. If they slowed it down it might encourage action, but it would definitely ruin the corner itself.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:13 pm

autumn leaves turning :8:

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:45 pm

Imola scenery is gorgeous, who would knew there's even a romantic spot inside a race track?

Chris A · PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:03 pm

Are the rest of the race weekends this season going to be short ones like this, or is there a reason this weekend has the abbreviated schedule?

Gaara · PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:19 pm

I think it's just a test run. The rest are the normal three days.

James B · PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 2:09 am

Depending on who you read, it's either due to the journey from Portugal or noise restrictions at the circuit

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 2:32 am

Should have given them 2 hours of practice rather than 1. That's the only change I would make.

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