[morini]

I confess to never even hearing the name of this track before recent times, far less do I know anything about it.

I visited good old Youtube and watched this Ferrari go around it (Not going to make any jokes about this being a faster Ferrari than the current version Forza!). My first thoughts from the car view point was hell there will be no overtaking on this baby and I had visions of the Hungaroring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4MB4LlTLCI

I read through a few of the comments and was surprised to see so many were positive about the circuit and indeed the prospects of overtaking and the fact that it was a pretty unforgiving layout.  I saw a comment from Pennywise who clearly likes the idea so I wondered what you guys could tell me about it and your thoughts on the upcoming race on a circuit that I was shocked to discover is owned by Ferrari. Shocked because I am ignorant of many things F1!!!

Educate me guys...

Well, I don't think anyone knows much about it in an F1 sense as there have not been any races there. The guys on here who follow bike racing will know it from Moto GP. F1 has tested there and the drivers seem to like it a lot as (unlike Hungary you refer to) it's a fast circuit full of fast corners.

I'm not 100% convinced it will make a great F1 track for racing. Ian thinks there will be overtaking and I hope he is right (it has a long straight), but I suspect it will be a difficult circuit for F1 cars to follow each other closely around the rest of the lap. I could be completely wrong and am looking forward to finding out as it is something new none of us have seen before.