10 setembro, 2006
Vou aproveitar que a corrida apenas começou para postar algo sobre o Autodromo Nazionale Monza, ontem estava vendo [i]Grand Prix[/i] e fiquei pensando a quantos anos que a F1 corre em Monza. Eu já estava a procurar essa resposta quando na transmissão disseram que este é o 57o GP.... e talvez o último. (E antes q me perguntem Monaco tem 54 GPs!!)
A GPDA, através do Webber, expressou a intenção de não correr em Monza em 2007 se mudanças não forem feitas na areas de escape do circuito. Monza é conhecido pelo fato que os pilotos passam a maior parte do tempo acelerando, e por ser um circuito plano com pouca elevações é considerada otima para testar a potencia do carro e nao a capacidade dos pilotos!!
Não é de hoje que mudanças são feitas ao traçado de Monza, eu encontrei uma descriçao mas esta em ingles! Sorry!!!
"Both car and Grand Prix motorcycle racing were regular attractions at Monza from 1966, but with increasing speeds the track was "slowed" in 1972 with two more chicanes. Grand Prix motorcycles continued to use the un-slowed road track until two races resulted in five deaths in 1973, including Renzo Pasolini and Jarno Saarinen. Motorcycle racing did not return to Monza until 1981.
The 1972 chicanes were soon seen to be ineffective at slowing cars and one was remade in 1974, the other in 1976, and a third also added in 1976, with extended run-off areas. The Grand Prix lap was now 5.8 km long.
With technology still improving vehicle speeds the track was again changed in 1979 (O RONNIE PETERSON MORREU NO HOSPITAL EM 1978), with added kerbs, run-off areas extended and tyre-barriers improved, the infrastructure was also upgraded. These changes encouraged world championship motorcycling to return in 1981, but further safety work was undertaken through the 1980s. Also in the 1980s the podium, paddock and pits complex, stands, and campsite were either rebuilt or improved.
In the safety conscious years following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994 (albeit at a different track), the three main long curves were "squeezed" in order to install larger gravel traps, shortening the lap 5.77 km. In 1997 the stands were reworked to expand capacity to 51,000.
In 2000 the chicane on the main straight was altered, changing from a double left-right chicane to a single right-left chicane, in an attempt to reduce the frequent accidents at the starts due to the conformation of the braking area. The second chicane was also reprofiled. In the Formula 1 Grand Prix of the same year, the first to use this new chicanes, a marshal was killed by flying debris after a big pileup in the second chicane." www.wikipedia.org
... e a volta mais rapida ainda é do Barrichelo em 2004!!!
Para todos aqueles que não acreditam que as mulheres também podem entender de automobilismo.
