Round the bends
| Alonso Semprini sneers at the key corners of the Malaysian Grand Prix 
Wiener Over-steering is the main problem here – driving through the vicious crosswinds is like crowd-surfing a bear-pit while wrapped in bacon. Driffield Frankly, Driffield is nasty. The apex is tighter than a gnat’s batty and braking on the slicks drops the front end faster than a piano down a mineshaft. Touching the apex has little impact on lap time, but the adverse camber on the exit can make you run wide. You’ll pull a lot of G’s on the exit, meaning that blackouts and puking are a cinch. Ease off the chicken curry on the incoming flight. Infinity This intersection is truly unique – some people short-shift to third, but I thrash it in second until the space-time continuum tears open a route to Hairline. Hairline Imagine driving a gong. It’s the opposite of that. Mogwai Mr Wing refused to sell up when the area was redeveloped and tends to shoot passing vehicles with his Nambu Type 14 service revolver. Floor it till the throttle bleeds. Dada This corner is majorly tight, but be careful not to hit the kerb too hard as it has a nasty tendency to strip the vehicle of its meaning and render it entirely absurd. Last year, Team Gluten picked the wrong tyres and Jens Møller spun off when his chassis turned into penguins. |
