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A Fast Lap with Alex WURZ
I start a lap accelerating up to a
maximum speed of over 300km/h on the way to the first corner which
is quite a tricky downhill left-hand 2nd gear corner which I take at
about 95km/h. The circuit drops down sharply which makes braking
very difficult for this turn. Straight after this it leads into a
right-hand corner, I am still in 2nd gear but then I accelerate up
into 3rd gear, it is almost flat but very difficult. There is then a
long left-hand corner that leads on to the back straight where I go
over 300km/h before braking very hard into the next left-hand corner.
This is a medium speed corner taken in 3rd gear at around 135km/h
from here I accelerate along a short straight reaching 5th gear and
a speed of about 280km/h before going into a very difficult fast
right-hand 4th gear corner which has a double apex and is taken at
about 180km/h. Next I have to brake into a very slow corner which is
taken in 1st gear at under 80km/h, this is immediately followed by a
slow left-hand corner, still taken in 1st gear at around 95km/h. A
very short straight then leads into the slowest corner of the
circuit again back into 1st gear and this time right down to 70 km/h.
I take the next left-hand corner almost flat in qualifying at around
200km/h in 4th gear with just a slight lifting of the throttle
before braking hard again for what is probably the most important
corner in the lap the final corner leading on to the straight which
is taken in 2nd gear at just over 100 km/h. I have to get a clean
exit from this corner is very important to start the uphill climb to
the finish line to end the lap.
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