Crychan2 Presents the Birmingham Grand Prix

This is Britain's second city, with over 1,000,000 people living here, with icons such as the Mailbox, Bullring and Selfridges.

Birmingham - once known as the city of 1,000 trades, has suffered with the decline of the manufacturing industry

It is short, and slow, in the mould of Monaco
No pit garages or grandstands, but enough room for both (surprisingly for a cramped city centre)
It would need a lot of safety measures, as ever on a street circuit.

Despite its lack of speed, it is very interesting and presents actual overtaking spots
The layout is conjucive to overtaking
At four miles, the track is long enough. It has some interesting corners.

I will describe the lap-

Start straight - Along the pretty road (always filled with flowers) straight into...
Turn 1 - Very quick left hander under the underpass, could be taken while accelerating before braking for...
Turn 2 - The tightest left hand hairpin ever!, which is followed closely by...
Turn 3 - A simple 90-right into...
Turn 4 - Another 90-right dropping into...
Turn 5 - A 90-left, which then leads into...
Turn 6 - A sweeping right-hand corner, before darting into...
Turn 7 - A cambered left, tight and fast, zooming up the hill, before turning a virtual hairpin past the police station and Children's Hospital, then driving quickly up to...
Turn 8 - A right-left chicane past the beautiful cathedral, then for the greatest corner on the track...
Turn 9 - An uphill left-hand hairpin, then...
Turn 10 - A slow adverse-cambered 90-left, then...
Turn 11 - A quick right/left that widens on exit with a passing place heading into the next bend, which is...
Turn 12 - A long left-hander that tightens on the exit, which can leave the driver stranded for pace down the pit-straight.

My city... My life

I used Multimap for the map - The scale was 1:25,000

Tue 08/22/06, 10:56 am EST

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