With news that work is underway to make changes to the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne for this year, I thought it might be useful to share a more detailed map of the track with a Google Maps overlay.
The changes look fairly small from above, but will actually make the circuit much faster – as much as 5 seconds a lap quicker.
For the most part the work is widening a handful of corners, by the looks of it making the angles less acute and thus a bit quicker – with the exception of turn 13 which is being tightened in order to try to create an overtaking opportunity. But in the case of turn 6, and turns 9/10 the changes are a little more significant, creating a much faster flow to the circuit.
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A lifelong motorsport fan and racing circuit geek, he decided to start creating illustrations of his favourite circuits and cars – and went on from there!