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/EmveePhotography Rawcheek 🤭🧴 25d ago

I actually have that with every track designed by TIlke, to be honest. They're all boring.

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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/EmveePhotography Rawcheek 🤭🧴 25d ago

The main problem I have with Tilke circuits, and the main reason why I think it's 'boring', is that all of his designs are intrinsically the same. They have the same kind of corners, follow the same patterns and offer the same (lack of) challenges. Tilke basically has one standard circuit which he ports to various locations.

Don't get me wrong. I'm convinced that the man is a very capable circuit builder, otherwise he wouldn't be involved in so many of them, and he's really good at building tracks which follow modern safety standards. It's just that I'd like to see a tiny little bit of variation and creativity every now and then. You know, something like a new Eau Rouge (at Spa), cambered corners (like Zandvoort), possibilities of alternative racelines (like Max at Sao Paulo), a new Suzuka. Heck, even something with a new high speed challenge (like Monza), or something with significant height differences like a few circuits have (including the aforementioned Spa and Sao Paulo, or Spielberg). Or just something completely crazy and new which we've never seen before, but is completely possible with 2024 insights and technology.

Even refurbished circuits like Hockenheim lost quite a bit of their spark after he was done, in my opinion. I'm pretty sure there were more and different possibilities there.

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u/CaptainPonahawai “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” 24d ago

Hockenheim was absolutely destroyed.