Dunno if a longer straight would help overtaking. They anyways tweak a "virtual" length for overtaking with the DRS zone length. If you would need more overtaking there, they could just increase the DRS legth, the start of it is still some 100m away from the point the cars are straight and could use it. Or just DRS out of turn 3...FW17 wrote: ↑11 Sep 2023, 13:01Road if front of the mall is a 4 lane carriagway, which is 15m wide.basti313 wrote: ↑11 Sep 2023, 11:29Too small...the section behind turn 7 looks small, but actually this is a broad 2 lane road. When you walk on the track it seems huge, on the other hand the section behind the park is very small, would need a lot of rework. They also need the space for the safety zone after turn 7 which extends far and is a safety exit and need to limit the speed into turn 10 where there is no space.
Furthermore there is a mall behind the park, so if they would extend they would not have space behind the memorial for a grandstand.
I have been on this grandstand in the year Vettel had his last win....I think this was 2019. I think the area and track is just great in this location as you can go very close to the track. Between turn 8 and 9 you can take pictures directly at the fence, the cars are 5m away from you.
I think the change is great for this year. I never understood the marina section and I think it broke the flow on the circuit. It was always just a reason for safety cars....I do not remember a nice move there into the grandstand.
But...although I do not like the float...I wonder how they deal with loosing so much grandstand...tickets should be strongly limited.
Around the memorial park would give much better viewing of turn 7 from the park grand stand.
The fast right left that would be at where turn 9 is located could be made slower to accommodate the lack of runoff at 10.
Anyway chicane are no improvements to 90 degree corners, only improvement would be for the longest straight (not very long) to be longer by 150m, making overtaking more promising.
For the space:
Today they go into the wide Nicoll Highway. And that is narrow when coming out of 300kph side by side. I do not think it makes sense to discuss Beach Road behind the park for this....Nicoll Highway is wide open and they use 3 lanes only for the outside runoff with the sausage curbs.
For the grandstand:
You know that the park is not symmetrical? They use the wide area in front of the memorial towards the current track and this is already quite narrow. There is barely space and the lines are somehow crowded/strange when everyone goes to the grandstand. No way they could fit this size of grandstand anywhere else in the park.
