I do not know what is worse: actually using the rather pathetic loophole of tommykl not banning us from tearing down things, that my track still sucks despite of doing so or that I actually did research on Chinese gold medal winners to name the corners after?
Enter the
Jiadingshan Park CircuitWith a track length of 4.342 km, this new track around the Jiadingshan Park in Sifang is home of the Indy Qingdao 600 and will hopefully deliver 222 laps of hot and thrilling racing.
Inspired by (read: Cheaply stolen from) the track line of the Australian Albert Park Circuit, the rather fast-flowing first half of the lap obviously begins at the start-finish line which is followed by a minor bent run to the first corner, forcing drivers to stay ever so slightly awake before the Lu Gan Corner (turn 1), a right-hander, virtually 90° yet still taken with considerable speed. Therefore slowing the cars down a bit are the NBC and ESPN Turns, turns number two and three respectively. Following that challenging twist, a slow corner is to be mastered, the Wang Shaofeng Corner. Now, the cars go full-speed through turn 5, the Rick Mears Bend. Now the cars hit their highest speed of the lap before punishing their brakes to get proper entry into turn 6 (Xu Haifeng Corner) which is important to get the first tricky section of the lap spot on: turns 7, 8 and 9, named after gold medalists Wu Shude, Jujie Luan and Ma Yanhong respectively. They are quite slow corners with the walls closer than anywhere else but the pits; this part separates the men from the boys.
After that it is getting faster again past one part of the park and onwards to turn 10, the Indianapolis Bend. After another straight, the second slower part begins with turn 11, Changchun Corner, a 90° left-hander, shortly followed by Chengdu Corner, a 90° right-hander. After that we arrive at the second very tricky section of this lap, yet another part the driver has to get perfectly. Turns 13 (named after the first Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun) to turn 15, the slowest point of the lap, are very tight unforgiving bends. Goux Corner, that being the name of the last turn in that section, is very harsh, coming directly after a nearly 90° right-hander, the Dawson Corner. After surviving that mean part and Turn 16, Melbourne Bend, it is a short dash to the last two turns, the Unity Chicane. From then on it is full speed to the finish line and you have successfully completed one lap around the Jiadingshan Park Circuit with only 221 left to go.