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PIX: Check out F1's fastest and longest street circuit March 18, 2021 17:36 IST

PIX: Check out F1's fastest and longest street circuit March 18, 2021 17:36 IST

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06 May 2021

PIX: Check out F1's fastest and longest street circuit March 18, 2021 17:36 IST


Formula One unveiled its longest and fastest street circuit on Thursday, predicting top speeds of 322kph and wheel-to-wheel racing when Saudi Arabia hosts a race for the first time in Jeddah in December.Organisers said the December 5 night race in the Corniche area of the Red Sea port city will be over a 6.175km layout, making it the sport's second longest track after Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps.

Largely using existing roads, and encircling a lagoon, the floodlit circuit will feature 27 corners with cars lapping at average speeds of 252.8kph, according to Formula One's simulations.

That would put it behind Italy's Monza, the fastest of any circuit, but ahead of Britain's Silverstone in terms of outright speed.

Formula One's motorsport managing director Ross Brawn said the layout would create plenty of overtaking opportunities and wheel-to-wheel racing.

"We don't want Mickey Mouse circuits," he told the F1 website.

"We don't want those old classic street circuits where you turn 90 (degrees). We want fast, sweeping circuits, we want circuits that are going to challenge the drivers and they are going to love it. We want circuits where we can have wheel-to-wheel racing."