Albert Park to change layout ahead of 2021 australian grand prix

Albert Park to change layout ahead of 2021 australian grand prix

Speedcafe have released details of the planned changes to the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne ahead of the 2021 Australian Grand Prix.

Monday, February 01, 2021 (2:31 pm)

Speedcafe have released details of the planned changes to the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne ahead of the 2021 Australian Grand Prix.


Organisers had initially planned to resurface the circuit before next year’s race, but the postponement of this season’s edition until November has led to those plans being brought forward.

 

With the race moved from its usual March slot, there would not have been enough time until the 2022 curtain-raiser for the changes to be completed.

 

In addition to the resurfacing plans, there will be tweaks made to the layout itself in a bid to increase the amount of overtaking and improve the spectacle, while the pit lane will be widened.

 

“We’ve got good dialogue about where the specs and the cars are going to be for 2022,” CEO of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation Andrew Westacott told Speedcafe. “One of the things that takes a fair bit of time is to actually look at a circuit and take into account its design based on the very important work, projected performance of the cars from the simulation and performance point of view.

 

“What we want to do, I guess the overriding principles of looking at and finalising what we can achieve by when is that, like any good circuit, we want to actually be able to reward brave driving. We want to be able to penalise sloppy driving.

 

“The circuit does need resurfacing so there are some areas where we can adjust camber and provide alternate and multiple lines into particular turns on the circuit.

 

“An example of that might be Turn 13, where there’s really only one line into that and you can’t actually overtake on the outside, because it’s negative camber.

 

“If that was positive camber and it was slightly widened so you had multiple options for the apex and so on, then suddenly with not terribly much effort you’re actually making a number of changes, a number of opportunities to enhance more than one path into particular turns.

 

“I think that the turns that present themselves with the opportunities for review tend to be Turn 13, Turn 3, maybe even Turn 6 a little bit with just changing the apex of the turn a bit.”

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