The relatively shallow 8.7 degrees of banking means the long, fast left-hander can’t quite be taken flat-out and was billed in the lead up to the event as “hardcore” by Winward Mercedes driver Lucas Auer.
“I think everybody is shitting his pants a little bit when you go there,” he admitted. “Last week when we tested there, the first lap I thought ‘Oh, gosh, it’s hardcore.’”
