Quote Originally Posted by DisPlaCeD View Post
Street circuits are completely different to short circuit... here it looks like the walls are positioned in such a way that unless someone royally gets it wrong, there should be no reason for a crash there. Where as on a street circuit you have a wall at the end of a long straight... That is the dangerous part.

The worst wall looks like pit wall... and that's just as bad is Wakefield or OP (may it rest in peace)... where walls the are on the exit of a corner under hard acceleration, most likely for a highside...

But it's an anti-clockwise circuit... wouldn't left side tyre wear be a given?
Crashes often occur for many, many reasons where they 'shouldn't' - overtaking manoeuvres, mechanical failures, ambition outweighing talent etc etc etc. I guess my point is that it isn't a street circuit, it's a racetrack. And racetracks had walls in the bad old days (eg Oran), but now have runoff for obvious safety reasons. Why make an unsafe new racetrack?? If he is seriously proposing this layout with walls, there's no way MA will approve it for motorcycles (and I suspect none of the major car series will want to race there either). Even if not for safety concerns, even a minor brush with a wall in a car can do massive damage that costs a bomb to fix. Dragging a car out of a gravel trap costs nothing.

Left tyre wear is usually higher on an anti-clockwise circuit, although not always. The trick is to balance the load, and the most ferocious wear (cars and bikes) comes from fast, accelerating-exit loooooong corners. Which is made worse if they are close together and don't let the tyre cool and recover. A-la Phillip Island.

If you have a left and a right fast long corner, then the wear is more evenly spread. If the only fast corners are lefts, you get very uneven wear.