(Reuters) – Some minor changes might be made to the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix’s Jeddah road circuit to improve driver visibility round corners, organisers stated on Thursday.
“Firstly, there are going to be one or two slight modifications to the monitor,” Saudi Motorsport Company Chief Executive Martin Whitaker stated in a press release.
“These tweaks are immediately associated to a drivers’ sightline from the cockpit.
“It’s minimal work, however it can assist improve ahead visibility in a few corners.”
The 6.1-km lengthy Jeddah Corniche Circuit made its Formula One debut in December and is taken into account to be the second-fastest monitor on the calendar after Monza in Italy.
Its flowing layout of primarily flat-out blasts alongside town’s Red Sea waterfront and a succession of excessive pace corners hemmed in by partitions, made it tough for drivers to spot slower shifting automobiles round some turns.
That led to some close to misses in observe and qualifying, earlier than the monitor produced a dramatic race on Sunday that was halted twice due to crashes.
Drivers loved tearing across the high-speed layout however raised considerations in regards to the lack of visibility round corners.
“The size of time between the 2 races has enabled us to mirror on some features that did and didn’t work,” stated Whitaker, including that some limitations across the monitor would even be modified to accommodate the racing traces drivers have been taking by means of sure corners.
“And now we have been striving to improve on some areas for our second occasion.”
The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will happen on March 27, one week after the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
(Reporting by Abhishek Takle; modifying by Pritha Sarkar)
