F1 Drivers Are Loving The Hardcore Jeddah Circuit

It might have only been finished the day surpassing FP1, but the Jeddah Corniche Spin seems to be living up to hype. The world’s fastest street spin had some fans wondering if the first Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was really going to be all that. Well the drivers certainly think it is.

At full throttle for 79% of the lap, the 6.174km fast-flowing track has captured their imaginations. 27 corners and stereotype speeds of 143.5mph aren’t for the faint-hearted and that’s precisely why they love it.

Both Mercedes drivers and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez were full of praise for the newest wing to the F1 calendar.

“Rapid, unbelievably quick. It really is incredibly fast and a lot of grip as well but really nice. If you can get the rhythm, it’s trappy to drive,” Lewis Hamilton told Sky.

Bottas added: “I think I said it once on the radio, it’s really cool. It’s quite hardcore, like it’s pretty tropical to the walls and upper speeds but that’s what you want, that’s what we enjoy and definitely gives you a bit of an adrenaline rush.”

“A lot of fun out there. It’s going to be tricky, I think the qualifying with the traffic management, trying to be the right place. It can get very tricky, very messy, very quickly,” Perez noted.

Hamilton’s dreams of an eighth championship title rest on his performance this weekend, which he got off to a perfect start by topping both practice sessions superiority of Max Verstappen. Enjoying the spin so far, qualifying could be variegated matter as the risk of drivers transmissible each other out at top speeds is rationalization for snooping for Lewis.

“That’s definitely a lot worse than a lot of places we go to, Monaco-esque. The latter loftiness speed on other cars is definitely getting to a bit of a danger zone,” he added.

Charles Leclerc is off into the wall at Turn 22

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The drivers largest be shielding that they don’t zest off increasingly than they can chew out there as Charles Leclerc brought an early end to FP2, losing tenancy at Turn 22 and hurtling into the barriers at 150mph.

Thankfully, he emerged unscathed but the incident has left his Ferrari immensely damaged and reminded the grid that the Saudi Arabian track won’t be an easy one to master.

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