Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe P2 starts on new Baku track
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The qualifying race of the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe has started on the new Baku track.
With a length measuring at slightly over six kilometers, the 20-corner track will be lapped 51 times, with cars reaching potential speeds of up to 340km per hour, marking the circuit out as the fastest street circuit on the existing F1 calendar.
The circuit offers a number of challenges for drivers, including
an extremely narrow uphill section along the old town walls that
will require pinpoint accuracy, and it has an acceleration section
of almost 2.2 kilometres along the seaside promenade, which will
see the cars running flat out at very high speed - something that
will create an incredible show for race fans.
In Friday’s opening practice session for the 2016 Formula 1 Grand
Prix of Europe in Azerbaijan, the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and
Nico Rosberg led the way from Williams’ Valtteri Bottas. However,
it was Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo who showed just how punishing
the walls of the new Baku City Circuit could be this weekend.
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