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Japanese GP: A lap with Alex Wurz

Indexed: Mon Oct 06, 2008 @ 11:00:05PM 1 month 3 weeks ago

"Fuji Speedway is a big challenge for a driver. It's probably more difficult to achieve a good lap time there than it is at Suzuka, which is more of a high-speed and ballsy track. You need to be very gentle with the car at Fuji as a little mistake through the twisty final sector can cost you 0.5s. "The reason why errors get punished so hard at Fuji is due to the lack of downforce on the cars. It's a twisty track, but you can't run Monaco wing levels because you'd be far too slow along the 1.5km pit straight. ...

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Source: Motorsport.com - http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=310663
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