Comments on: Short cuts http://www.stuartcodling.com/2010/01/short-cuts/ A Formula 1 Blog by Stuart Codling Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:51:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Stuart C http://www.stuartcodling.com/2010/01/short-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Stuart C Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:45:50 +0000 http://www.stuartcodling.com/?p=134#comment-272 <a href="#comment-270" rel="nofollow">@antoine</a> A cheap Howard Jones reference? Surely not! @antoine

A cheap Howard Jones reference? Surely not!

]]> By: antoine http://www.stuartcodling.com/2010/01/short-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-270 antoine Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:10:47 +0000 http://www.stuartcodling.com/?p=134#comment-270 I'm surprised you didn't do a 'Pearl in the Schell' pun... I’m surprised you didn’t do a ‘Pearl in the Schell’ pun…

]]> By: Steven Roy http://www.stuartcodling.com/2010/01/short-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Steven Roy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:51:15 +0000 http://www.stuartcodling.com/?p=134#comment-269 That sort of thing has been done a lot more recently than that. I remember at least once in the early 80s someone (Piquet?) worked out that he could brake 'too late' for a corner and shoot down an escape road. The return fed into the exit of the last corner so instead of going round a slow corner on to the start straight he shot down the return road and arrived at the corner exit something like 50mph faster than was possible via the normal route. I have a feeling others copied this approach. I can't remember where the track was but I think it was one of the American street circuits. That sort of thing has been done a lot more recently than that. I remember at least once in the early 80s someone (Piquet?) worked out that he could brake ‘too late’ for a corner and shoot down an escape road. The return fed into the exit of the last corner so instead of going round a slow corner on to the start straight he shot down the return road and arrived at the corner exit something like 50mph faster than was possible via the normal route. I have a feeling others copied this approach.

I can’t remember where the track was but I think it was one of the American street circuits.

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