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Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:35 am
by BlueSharky
Which section gives you the greatest thrill, both watching and/or driving on a sim, and why?
I'd vote for Brazil, the feeling you get on flat out, flowing, uphill climb is so exhilarating, it's like you can actually feel the car's awesome grunt underneath you. Not to mention, you're inches away from ramming headfirst into the pit entry wall.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:40 am
by Race2win
Damn... Why cant I get a choice of 2 or 3?
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:42 am
by BlueSharky
Alright, lifted choice restrictions. Feel free to vote.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:44 am
by Laura23
Silverstone because the speed of direction change the cars take through there still boggles my mind each and every year.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:57 am
by IDrinkYourMilkshake
The OP has missed perhaps THE most challenging one. It's in Spa, and is much more challenging these days than Eu Rouge or Blanchimont.
It's Pouhon.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:59 am
by IDrinkYourMilkshake
And if Tamburello from Imola is there( and I think the OP means pre-1994 Imola), then why isn't Turkey's turn 8 there?
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:00 am
by BlueSharky
IDrinkYourMilkshake wrote:The OP has missed perhaps THE most challenging one. It's in Spa, and is much more challenging these days than Eu Rouge or Blanchimont.
It's Pouhon.
Pouhon needs braking to 4th gear iirc. The thread isn't about hairy corners, it's about sustained max rpm sections. If I ever make a thread on best corners, Pouhon would be a definite inclusion.
IDrinkYourMilkshake wrote:And if Tamburello from Imola is there( and I think the OP means pre-1994 Imola), then why isn't Turkey's turn 8 there?
Same logic as Pouhon.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:03 am
by FormulaFun
after St Devote for the close weaving walls & bumpy road, Maggots - Becketts because of the direction change, Back straight in Sepang because of the braking zone and the entrance to the straight, and the Casino straight in Canada because it provides so many good overtakes and duels and leads onto the final chicane
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:06 am
by Covalent
Eau Rouge.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:58 am
by mds
Only one answer for me: Eau Rouge. Few more monts and I'll be standing there again, can't wait.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:41 am
by Jo_
For me definitely La Source through Eau Rouge. Onboards through that section are just breathtaking, even moreso since we have seen a couple of overtakes in that section as well over the last couple of years.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:48 am
by Clarky
I know it is not there but Turkey's turn 8 is my favorite.
From the list Eau Rouge
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:14 am
by chican
Valencia's last sector had a very peculiar flat-out false-straight.
Magny cours had a couple of full throttle sections very challenging, the old Hockenheim was actually a big straight, I don't have any preferences actually.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:20 am
by Ev0lutionz
Where is Valencia?? And definitely turn 8 of turkey.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:24 am
by froze
For me it was a tough one between "Juncao to Senna S, Interlagos" and "La Source, through Eau Rouge", but I voted Interlagos because I think there's still more action there.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:39 am
by BlueSharky
I was under the impression Turn 8, Turkey was not a flat out corner. Is it?
Added Valencia.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:43 am
by BlueSharky
Holy mother of god, do the poll results get wiped if a new entry is added?
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:55 am
by froze
BlueSharky wrote:Holy mother of god, do the poll results get wiped if a new entry is added?
It's called an electoral fraud.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:12 am
by Zekenwolf
No contest for me. Spa.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:08 pm
by Grosjean
BlueSharky wrote:I was under the impression Turn 8, Turkey was not a flat out corner. Is it?
Added Valencia.
it is definitely flatout for top cars ,
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:14 pm
by Grosjean
what about melbourne the 11 and 12 chicane at end of the 2nd sector ?
watch from 3:00 onward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MEzITnuGaA
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:16 pm
by jensons button
Seeing an F1 car come out of Tabac through the first part of the swimming pool is pretty spectacular I can tell you!
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:34 pm
by BlueSharky
Sigh. There will always be a few things I'd miss. I could add them, but the existing poll results would get wiped, and it already got wiped once when I added Valencia.
PS : No love for Catalunya?
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:00 pm
by Grosjean
BlueSharky wrote:Sigh. There will always be a few things I'd miss. I could add them, but the existing poll results would get wiped, and it already got wiped once when I added Valencia.
PS : No love for Catalunya?
catalunya is fairy cakes , it is what it is
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:24 pm
by chican
Grosjean wrote:BlueSharky wrote:Sigh. There will always be a few things I'd miss. I could add them, but the existing poll results would get wiped, and it already got wiped once when I added Valencia.
PS : No love for Catalunya?
catalunya is fairy cakes , it is what it is
A straight line, even if it is wavy, is not necessarily spectacular. I would consider Turn 3 from that circuit, that's great, I remember walking around the circuit and hearing the cars gearing up while negotiating that turn, it was the V10 era then and it sounded like hell.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:21 pm
by f1madman
La Source to Kemmel Straight
Spoon though 130R
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:29 pm
by xECKSx58
La Source and 130R
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:47 am
by minchy
I don't know if they get to full throttle, but I really liked turn 2 onwards in Austin last year. Alternatively, Eau Rouge and Radillion in reverse! There was an onboard vid that Bruno took on his phone whilst doing this at a demo, it's a lot scarier when you're ploughing down towards Radillion and instead of the grass run off there's a wall there!
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:31 am
by Ev0lutionz
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:24 pm
by mcdo
I absolutely love watching the cars approach the Bus Stop chicane at full throttle & then braking hard in order to get through.
My second choice would be the same scenario on the approach to Rettifilo at Monza.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:31 pm
by sic98
Among the ones i choose, Stavelot to Bus Stop chicane, through the twin Blanchimont left handers, Spa was my favourite. Not my favourite in the technical category by any means, but the length of the section and its build up provides a wonderfully long period of max revs till the point that you think that the engine will blow. Always search on board footage of this section if i want to listen to a particular cars engine.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:21 pm
by orbthef1fan
St. devote-Casino. Turn 8 Turkey and Tunnel Monaco if they were there.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:50 pm
by Asphalt_World
Stavelot to Bus Stop for me.
I have to admit though that the last section of the Valencia street circuit is brilliant with cars running really close to the walls on both sides as it twists. This is followed by a heavy breaking zone taken whilst having to turn right and preparing to go left.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:05 am
by LITE992
Stavelot to Bus Stop. If you have the car, you can go flat out through the second Stavelot which takes you close to the barrier, and then of course you had through Blanchimont.
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:01 pm
by r41
Voted for the China straight, the two choices from Spa, and 130R.
This poll made me appreciate Spa even more. The day they remove this circuit from the calendar will be the day when... <insert sad stuff here>
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:01 pm
by BlueSharky
Someone finally voted for Catalunya
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:24 pm
by Michael_f1
Both choices from Spa, and 130R for me
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Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:39 pm
by M.Nader -DODZ-
Silverstone, SPA (both), Monte Carlo and Suzuka for me.
the 130R and turn 8 Turkey being the most challenging. I would say turn 8 turkey is the best for me, it is only flat out depending on the regs. in 2010-2011 only RBR did it flat out
Re: Favorite flat out, full throttle section?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:31 pm
by purchville
Interlagos and Spa, because they both have topography to deal with.
Love 130R but couldn't vote for it because I always remember it most fondly as a place where drivers lifted