Turkey: All in same kettle of fish
By Karl King
August 11 2005
Next weekend sees the F1 circus return to track - this time at the inaugral Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul. It's the only new GP to the grid, and is designed by Hermann Tilke, who was also responsible for the sesign of the relatively new Bahrain and Shanghai tracks.
Jarno does not believe the 3.3mile circuit will be too hard to learn.
"When you go to a new circuit it doesn't really have
a major effect on the weekend. You just make sure you walk around the track on Thursday, then you spend the first session on Friday learning the circuit. By the second session it's back to normal and the rest of the weekend is the same as usual. Before we get there we have pretty much no idea about what the circuit will be like for driving. "
Ralf agrees with Trulli and adds that everyone is in the same boat.
"When you go to a new track you usually spend the first session getting used to it. In this case it's a brand new circuit for everyone, so it's not too much of a problem. Everyone is affected in a similar way."
Physical demands may be a factor to drivers in the GP as the track is anti-clockwise - different to most in the calendar.
"The only other thing that stands out is that it is an anti-clockwise circuit. That means you might feel it in your neck because the pressures are the other way round from usual," Trulli said.
We don't know much about the circuit - and most won't until qualifying is screened on our TV's - but Jarno is here to shed some light on the anticipation: "The one thing I do know is that it will be hot!"
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