So this weekend F1 heads to New Delhi for it's second visit to the Buddh International Circuit for the Indian GrandPrix. I am extremely excited about this weekend's race as I have yet to experience it as I missed it last year as I was in the US and didn't have access to TV coverage, I do know however that Sebastian Vettel and RedBull dominated the event taking Pole position and the the race win.
It is going to be extremely interesting to see what happens this weekend and a number of big question's need to be asked like will Sebastian Vettel take his fourth win in a row? Can Kimi Raikkonen and Lotus take their first win of the season? Will Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton be in a position to challenge for the win? And finally will Fernando Alonso be able to get his championship challenge back on track? Excuse the pun haha!!
And so to the circuit itself: the race is 60 laps long. The circuit is a total distance of 3.185 miles long so that means the driver's will cover 191 race miles. Turn's three and four have a very steep elavation and turn's 1 and 2 are a very tight combination of right, left before a very sweeping curve and extremely heavy braking zone of turn 3 before the driver's can deploy DRS and KERS down the straight for fantastic overtaking opportunities as they reach top speed heading down to turn 4 that can probably be taken flat out if the driver is feeling brave before they head down to the double right hander of turn's 5 and 6 and straight through turn 7 a left hander if you can even call it a turn. Turns eight and 9 are tricky before the sweeping horse shoe of turn's 10 and 11 and flat out once again for turn's 13 and 14 before the tight right hander of turn 15 before the heavy braking zone of turn 16 the last corner on the track. You have to be extremely careful here as the entrance to the pitlane is right on the apex of the turn so it is easy to be caught out it is equally tight heading down to turn 1 as the pit lane exit opens out into turn 1.
In my opinion it makes for an extremely interesting race and we can be assured of plenty of overtaking. So watch this space, we are in for yet another mega GrandPrix as the season fast approaches it's dramatic conclusion.
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