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Q+A with Lotus' Nick Chester
Lotus F1 Team Technical Director Nick Chester looks intot he technical challenges that are expected when running starts on Friday on the brand new circuit that is the Sochi Autodrom, set to play home to the first ever Russian GP.
What would you describe as the main challenges of Sochi Autodrom? We will of course only properly identify the challenges once we are actually in Sochi however we already have initial feedback from both Romain and Pastor who have been in the simulator. Turn 3 is a long and quite high speed corner that will present a good challenge. Braking down into Turn 13 will be very severe and you come out of the kink before you brake so it will be a difficult corner to get...
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