The Tilkedrom
After Sepang, Bahrain and the Shanghai circuit, the new Istanbul Otodrom is the fourth track Hermann Tilke has designed and constructed from scratch. But Istanbul promises to be unlike any other Tilke track seen before: it promises the drivers one hell of a bumpy ride. Adam Cooper talked to the proud, and nervous designer - as well as BAR's third driver Anthony Davidson, who talks him through a virtual lap of the unknown
The man on the spot in Turkey this weekend will be track designer Hermann Tilke, just as he was at the birth of his other venues in Malaysia, Bahrain and China. Each one of those successively topped the others with its extravagance, but Turkey will be a little bit different.
A modest budget meant that there was no way that the infrastructure was going to outdo the likes of Shanghai, while the fact that it is treated like any European race - the teams bring their own motorhomes and trucks - means that there's less requirement for a mighty pit and paddock facility.
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