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Baku's record top speeds not expected by track designer
Formula 1 track designer Hermann Tilke says he was caught by surprise that the new Baku Formula 1 track produced record top speeds at the end of the straight. Valtteri Bottas was officially clocked across the start/finish line as going at 366.1 km/h during qualifying in Baku, as the result of a slipstream he had got off Max Verstappen's Red Bull. However, as braking zone for Turn 1 is after the start/finish line, Williams' data showed that his car continued to accelerate after that reading and reached a peak of 378km/h shortly afterwards. This figure is in excess of speed trap figures from F1's other high-speed venues, Mexico and Monza. At last year's Mexican Grand Prix during qualifying,...
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