Turn one is going to be a mess. I'm telling you now, it's deceptively sharp and has no damn room at all. You have got to go into it wide so you can make a good exit for turn 2 (which is barely a flick of the wheel to the left) then you are on a pretty spooky straight.* Creeped me out every time and about 50% of the time I would brake way to soon, realize my mistake, jump on the gas, brake too late, and then I'm on the run-off.
This track really asks you to attack the curbs, it's pretty cool when you get it right and surprising in how quickly it punishes you when you get it wrong. One of the great things here is that the run-off areas contain a lot of pavement. Saved me plenty of times.
Turn 3 is very slow but for some reason, easier to work out than turn 1. Bit of a breather here as you fade right to cut the apex as shallow as you can for the first of a left right left sequence through which I had to keep remindimg myself to use the gas very sparingly.
If you make it out of 6 OK then you get to stomp on it and see if you can go through 7 flat out. This turn reminded me a lot of one of my favorite corners in all of F1, Eau Rouge, and while I could manage through 8 if I screwed up 7, nailing 7 was so cool that I often blew 8 completely. With a little practice this should be a fun sequence.
9 is fairly tricksy as it looks like 8 but is much tighter. I expect to see many offs here in practice.
Turn 10 slows you down a lot but sets you up for a nice series of corners through 15 that you can attack agressivly if your nerve holds.
15 is much slower than it looks and hitting 16 right is cirtical to have a good time through the next sequence. You mess it up, you're practically head on into a wall and that's exactly what I did. This is the first time I crashed and sustained enough damage that I could not continue the session. Since I'm trying to make it as realistic an experience as possible**, I stopped practice and didn't get more laps in. Kind of a drag but I do get another session.
If you do, however, get this right, you're turning right fairly hard accelerating really hard. Straining the whole time until you snap the car onto the start/finish straight. It feels cool and you will love the way it ends. When done right it feels like a slingshot.
*I call this the Spooky Haunted By Two Creepy Dead Girls Redrum Hallway of Longness + 4. I mean, really, this thing is long. And it's spooky because you think it's going to end and then it seems to extend right before your eyes.
**I also have a cardboard cutout of Nelson Piquet Jr. who I throw scraps of food at.
