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Superfast pole in Jeddah awaits: these are the numbers

The circuit in Saudi Arabia promises to be a real spectacle. On the second longest track on the calendar the drivers are likely to reach an average speed of over 250 kilometres per hour. With the walls always very close and hardly any possibilities to take an escape route, the smallest mistakes will be punished. Flying time Only at Spa the drivers have to bridge more metres to complete a lap. The Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, designed by Hermann Tilke, is 6.174 metres long and has no less than 27 bends (although the question is if you can really call most of them bends). Undoubtedly the F1 cars will drive there with wings similar to those at the also super fast Monza. The expectation is that...
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