Fuente : BAR Honda F1 Team
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FORMULA 1 – BAR HONDA: New circuit, new challenge

/noticias.info/ Following four points-scoring races and a strong two-car finish in Hungary, the B.A.R Honda team returns from the summer break and heads to Istanbul for the inaugural Turkish Grand Prix.



B.A.R Honda race driver Jenson Button and third driver Anthony Davidson in April visited the city and new Istanbul Otodrom circuit, to see at first hand the track and its facilities under construction. "I was really impressed by the layout of the circuit," says Jenson. "The design is very interesting and I think it’s going to make for some very good racing. The undulations that are part of the circuit make it very exciting from the driver’s point of view. I can’t wait to race there, although it will be very physical because it is one of only three anti-clockwise tracks we race at, and it will be incredibly hot.”

For team-mate Takuma Sato, the Istanbul Otodrom is completely unexplored territory. “It is always exciting to go to a new grand prix, especially in a country that I have not yet visited. From what I have seen so far, the circuit looks great. It is very difficult to know exactly what a new track will be like from two dimensional pictures, so the best way to get to know a circuit is to walk and drive around it first hand."

Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. European Istanbul comprises the majority of the city to the west, while Asian Istanbul lies to the east. European Istanbul is itself divided by the Golden Horn (Haliç) into the old city to the south and Beyoglu and other modern districts to the north. notas_de_prensa_archivo