Comments on: Brazil on schedule for rebuild

By: dkfone

dkfone — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:04:02 +0000

Id rather Tilke wasn’t left anywhere near the place!

By: Jodum5

Jodum5 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:43:25 +0000

Apparently, viewing the start, finish, podium ceremony, pits and pre-race activity plus getting covered seating (which most if not all start/finish grandstand seating are) results in the seats costing a premium. Personally, I don’t care anything I just listed (covered seating would be nice but I’ve done without). But I guess other people do.

By: Tom I

Tom I — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:59:26 +0000

I agree that I wouldn’t want those seats either, but the point is that some people do – usually those on a corporate jolly, don’t want to walk far from the paddock area and only have a passing interest in the race. You’ll also notice that most of the hospitality marquees are placed on the infield in crap viewing positions, but close to the paddock. They do this because again, many of the attendees aren’t really that interested in the sport itself. For them it is more about being seen, meeting friends and drinking champagne. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it will be a bit mystifying to those of us who are there for the sport. Commercial outfits wishing to entertain guests are generally willing to pay much more for their entry than enthusiasts… hence the price hike for those areas. I’m glad event organisers realise this and leave much of the decent spectator areas clear.

By: Trent

Trent — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:43:44 +0000

Hopefully changes that will not dumb down this amazing track. I think I’m right in saying this is the only track in use that has not changed since pre-1994. As such, it is the longest continuous reference point for F1 performance we have.

By: Fernando Amaral

Fernando Amaral — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:53:18 +0000

I think Joe refers to the stretch after start/finish straight, the current one. S do Senna (downhill S after current start), then Curva do Sol, then the back straight (old Reta Oposta): this would become the F1 pit straight and start/finish lines. Though not as steep as the S, this straight is downhill. A decent paddock to be built in the inlet of that part of the track. After this straight would come the right kink mentioned, rounding the lake and leading to the ending part of the old big straight of the 1970s and the (then) hair raising Curva 3, a lefthander (where in the 1977 GP several cars ended at the catch-fencing because of melting asphalt) that is still there but surely will not be adopted back to F1 with its present characteristic banking – then curva 4 which is a plane, slight kink to the left, and a very short straight, to be laid on as non-existent now, linking the ‘new’ stretch to Laranjinha (uphill two-apex righthander before the slow twisty sector). Hopefully the singularity of this corner will be kept, would be a shame to let it be ‘simplified’. I think the adding of that stretch can bring even more to the good level of racing Interlagos has shown over recent years. Again, just hope they dont modify the Laranjinha.

By: Dale D

Dale D — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:30:04 +0000

Go to Google> Click “maps” > Type “Interlagos” > Enjoy your new found searching talents.

By: MediumJim

MediumJim — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:01:58 +0000

They want the pits redone, larger and more modern was my understanding, plus higher end hospitality suites/area’s. Plus the island doesn’t look “glitzy” enough for Bernie’s liking. Also I read somewhere he wanted a better backdrop (ie city slyline) which I think is impossible, but what do I know, I’ve only been to the race 10 times, its not like I count.

By: RShack

RShack — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:10:44 +0000

There’s something I don’t understand about tracks in general…

Maybe I’m wrong, but my impression is that most of the expensive seats have a view of the grid and of the pits… and of the building across the track… and of not much else. There’s might be exceptions, but my impression is that this is the general rule.

If this is so, why in the world would anybody want that. I’d think you’d want a view of the grid, the pits… and of most of the track too. That seems to be the main potential benefit of the current short-track template. Why would anybody wanna pay through the nose to mainly look at another building and not see much of the racing? Or am I just wrong about this?

By: mark powell

mark powell — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:03:49 +0000

great, the curcuit can come up to date. Ive always thought that eccles gripe about the facilities at silverstone a little too far fetch, considering that interlargos looks aged and thrown together. I do hope there will be subtle changes but major upgrades and we dont want a herman tilke boring curcuit do we,raised out of the ashes of interlargos….

By: João Hornburg (@joaohornburg)

João Hornburg (@joaohornburg) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:54:30 +0000

a map please, a map.