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View Poll Results: What is your favorite F1 corner?
Suzuka’s 130R
13.16%
Monza’s Parabolica
2.63%
Istanbul Park’s Turn Eight
2.63%
Spa-Francorchamps’ Eau Rouge
65.79%
Silverstone’s Becketts
2.63%
Interlagos’s Mergulho
0
0%
Monte Carlo’s Grand Hotel Hairpin
7.89%
Montreal’s ‘Wall of Champions’
5.26%
Another corner not in the list
0
0%
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Old 10-26-2010, 08:38 PM
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http://www.formula1.com/news/feature.../10/11438.html

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[QUOTE]Turn, Turn, Turn: The best Formula One corners
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having never seen or experienced these turns personally, i can only judge by what looks interesting, unique, challenging, etc. i think my two favorites from this bunch are Eau Rouge and Turn 8.

i think Eau Rouge is a cool corner and unique. turning as you go up hill and the driver experiences all that compression. it is apparently extremely steep too.

Turn 8 at Turkey is cool to watch from on board shots from the cars. it seems challenging to the drivers and they experience the G-forces for quite a long time through the corner.
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I actually like the pool complex at Monte Carlo more than the hairpin. The speed at which they go through there and video angle at which they show that corner is just AWSOME!!! The way they can slow it down and you can see the tire flex and chassis flex is high on cool factor.
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Eau Rouge > *

The others are great, but they're not even close.
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Cool thread. 130R and Monaco's pool sections are ones you can actually drive in GT4 (the closest I'd ever come to driving them) and they're both great.
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to me it was a close call between Turn 8 and the 130R.. but i picked the Suzuka corner coz i love in while driving my NSX-R in Gran Turismo

I share my feelings with Timorocks311 about Turn 8, its similar to a turn i experienced in Bahrain inner circuit: Turn 1 in the below map! I just love it due the long period of high Gforce!

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[QUOTE=suzukablueS2000,Oct 28 2010, 02:37 AM] to me it was a close call between Turn 8 and the 130R..
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"Eau Rouge" at Spa-Francorchamps gets my vote!
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Originally Posted by gCHOW,Oct 29 2010, 07:59 PM
i'm with you on the gran turismo/forza.. i love the suzuka track with my NSX-R or my S2K!

eau rouge gets my vote cuz from images and watching races, you gotta have some cajones to go flat out through that corner.

either way, good poll
I also enjoy the tarmac run-off area when i go over the limit and get back on track to find myself screwing up in the final chicane after messing with the line. the whole suzuka circuit is very challenging to get right! you have flowing corners, esses, and blind corners,, then the 130R followed by that sharp chicane! its insane
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When Honda created the name for the best colored S2000, they simply picked from the track with the best corner in the world, Spa-Francorchamps’ Eau Rouge




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