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Tilke backs more street circuits; From Autosport.com
Topic Started: Feb 15 2007, 06:33 PM (135 Views)
The Saint
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Renowned Formula One track designer Hermann Tilke believes it is necessary to build circuits that are closer to the racing fans.

The German reckons the sport should make an effort to attract fans by racing more often on street circuits, rather than on state-of-the-art venues located far from the cities.

Currently, the Formula One calendar only includes two street circuits, in Monaco and in Melbourne.

"I think, there is a trend to get the tracks to the fans and not the other way around, and closer to the fans naturally suggests racing in the cities," Tilke said in an interview with autosport.com.

"And for obvious reasons you can hardly build permanent racetracks in the middle of a town, so you then come logically to street circuits.

"The second reason, and Monte Carlo is the best example, is that a street circuit creates a very special atmosphere."

Tilke admits, however, that street circuits cause bigger headaches from a logistic point of view, making the races less viable.

"Then again, street circuits also create a great deal of trouble, even more so when a race has not grown over the years such as the Monaco Grand Prix has," Tilke added.

"Everyone in Monte Carlo is aware, than once a year they cannot move as they want, they might be handicapped in parking their cars, in getting to their apartment, opening their store and so on.

"Reasons like that make it very difficult to adapt a town to a new race. And that might be ultimately the reason why we had so few street races in the younger history of Grand Prix racing.

"If, however, you have an area that is new anyway ­ as it is the case both in Abu-Dhabi and in South Korea ­ then you can build everything with all that in your mind.

"Straight away you can tell future owners of the flats or the houses that once a year there might be trouble, but that racing brings has also some advantages."

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Personally I have very little liking for street circuits, the are bumpy and slow with few opportunities for overtaking.

I would much rather travel to Silverstone to watch a race there than travel to London.

When Tilke talks about bringing the races to the people, does he mean the people who aren’t in the slightest bit interested and will probably moan about the congestion?
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Red Andy
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What he means is that when he builds street circuits, he can blame poor city planning for the fact that the track is so dull, whereas outside the cities he has to take full responsibility.
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The Saint
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that sounds plausible
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Monty
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sounds great more 90 minute processions with no on track action, i do like Monaco but i think that should be the only street circuit on the calander.
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Paul_Murtagh
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I like the irony of the first line:

"Renowned Formula One track designer Hermann Tilke believes it is necessary to build circuits that are closer to the racing fans."

That's why he built circuits like Bahrain and Shanghai were you could fit a national park in the run-off areas between the circuit and the barriers!
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mpv2409
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I think Tilke is over used as a track designer nowadays. He might be renowned and highly paid but he's basically building circuits that look and feel too similar to one another (Turkey aside).
Maybe he thinks that if he tries to design a new track it'll come out exactly like a previous one; with street circuits, the corner profiles are done for him!!!

Like Paul said...the run offs are insanely big, but I think that's probably got more to do with the Berni and Max (and safety) than Tilke himself. No excuse though...

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