On April 5, 2020, the world of Grand Prix will set up its marquee on the track in Austin, Texas, for the Grand Prix of the Americas. But last weekend, it was the Formula 1 cars that raced on the circuit dear to Kevin Schwantz. And we saw some worrying things there that will absolutely have to be corrected before the arrival of the motorcycles. Unless you transform them into motocross…
The images spoke for themselves: the Formula 1 jolted and were prone to kicking on a trackAustin wavy and strongly degraded. The subject is not new and already this season, MotoGP riders like other categories had complained about the state of the Texan track. Built on a marsh, the latter makes the surface work according to its moods…
The culmination of this torture inflicted on the single-seaters was the clear break in the suspension of the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel. An isolated fact, certainly, but the prancing horse team still hastened to inform its second driver Charles Leclerc to avoid taking too much of the rope on certain turns...
Given the behavior of Formula 1, we are already shuddering for the MotoGP riders who will have to take up the rodeo. You will tell me that in Texas, there will be nothing exceptional in this, but all the same, we are talking about the safety of champions.
The owner of the Austin location said that major work will be done this winter to resolve this bump problem. And the bill will be steep. We will wait for the results before judging the rest, the experience with other routes having sometimes revealed solutions worse than the evils... Still, all the work in the world will not take away the fact that underneath, everything rests on a swamp...
