re: 2022 Formula 1 Season Thread

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Chicane coming out at Catalunya

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Great news! That chicane is an abomination that was never needed.

Ironically, of all the grand prix circuits, there is one formerly used chicane that I would actually like restored, and it's at the Catalunya circuit. In 1994, after the disasters in the two previous rounds (Karl Wendlinger almost died at Monaco), they put a temporary tire chicane just before the Nissan Chicane, and by the next year they had constructed a bypass, and the Nissan Chicane was never used again. It was a fast chicane that added flavor to that section of the track. In this on-board video of Schumacher doing a lap while stuck in 5th gear, the video starts just after the tire chicane, as he goes through the Nissan Chicane, and then at the end of the video you see the tire chicane.

youtube.com/watch?v=xazImNY0hNg

Here's Schumacher doing a lap in 1991 on the original layout I'd love to see fully restored:

youtube.com/watch?v=5VIg88o1plM