The 2009 Italian Grand Prix Preview

Track Guide
Monza race track. Known for its long straights and challenging corners. The lap starts out with a long drive across the start finish straight with speeds reaching way past 330 kilometers an hour before braking hard for the Retifilio, a first gear, 70 kilometer an hour corner. You are still losing speed as you turn right and start to accelerate half way through the left turn. This was a very very quick double left right chicane before the year 2000 but has since been reprofiled to its current slow right left configuration.
As you accelerate away, you are to take the next corner, curva grande absolutely flat out, a right hander at 300 kilometers an hour right hander with Roggia coming up.
Variante della Roggia, t...

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