Some minor changes shall be made to the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix’s Jeddah road circuit to enhance driver visibility round corners, organisers mentioned on Thursday.
“Firstly, there are going to be one or two slight modifications to the observe,” Saudi Motorsport Firm Chief Government Martin Whitaker mentioned in a press release.
“These tweaks are immediately associated to a drivers’ sightline from the cockpit.
“It is minimal work, however it should assist enhance ahead visibility in a few corners.”
The 6.1-km lengthy Jeddah Corniche Circuit made its Formulation One debut in December and is taken into account to be the second-fastest observe on the calendar after Monza in Italy.
Its flowing format of primarily flat-out blasts alongside town’s Crimson Sea waterfront and a succession of excessive pace corners hemmed in by partitions, made it tough for drivers to identify slower shifting automobiles round some turns.
That led to some close to misses in observe and qualifying, earlier than the observe produced a dramatic race on Sunday that was halted twice resulting from crashes.
Drivers loved tearing across the high-speed format however raised considerations in regards to the lack of visibility round corners.
“The size of time between the 2 races has enabled us to replicate on some features that did and did not work,” mentioned Whitaker, including that some obstacles across the observe would even be modified to accommodate the racing strains drivers had been taking by sure corners.
“And we’ve been striving to enhance on some areas for our second occasion.”
The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will happen on March 27, one week after the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.