Abu Dhabi Grand Prix's promoters recently announced a series of changes to the event's Yas Marina circuit destined to improve the show on the track. As previously highlighted, the track will undergo an overhaul over the summer centered around two main areas. Yas Marina's Turn 7 will sell its current chicane replaced by a wider hairpin corner that should help boost overtaking opportunities on the approach to the corner as well as at the end of the back straight. But the most original feature of the track's changes will be the replacement of the complex of turns at the end of the second back straight by a single fast, and banked, left hand sweep. Furthermore, the corners situated at the...
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