r/formuladank • u/caschrock Alonso deserved to be Champion in every season he has competed • 25d ago

🌈 ben Sulayem 🌈 Thank you Ben, very cool

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u/LovieBeard BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

They're hit and miss. Malaysia, Bahrain, Turkey, and COTA are all fun tracks

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u/HandsumNap BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

Tilke has produced many bangers. I don't think he's a bad designer at all, and I think the problem is with F1, not him. Do you think it would be possible for anybody to design a good track at Sochi? or Yas Marina? The bad idea was putting tracks there to begin with, and I don't think any amount of great design could have made them much less shit than they are.

I've also met him a few times, and he's a really nice guy. Willing to talk to random fans for an unreasonably long time about F1.

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u/LovieBeard BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

Yas Marina is actually pretty good nowadays after the 2021 changes

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u/HandsumNap BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

It's an improvement, but I don't think Yas Marina produces especially exciting races for any reason other than being the last race of the year. My point is I think Tilke's track record is actually pretty good, and the stinkers he's put out weren't exactly locations that were begging for an exciting race track to be built on top of them.