Mosport Musings

I allways quite enjoyed visiting Mosport on the GPL circuit so pleasently surprised that it is completely unchanged from that layout.

I don't know of any other racing circuit in the world that has so little changes over a 40 year history. However this does cause problems which make it a less good circuit now than in the past. The first of these is lack of breaking zones. 

A Quick trip around the circuit and the corners arrive as follows. T1 your in 4th on approach, lift, turn in, floor it. Up to 5th for T2, lift, turn in, floor it. Some cars will touch 6th on the run to T3. This is the first braking zone and it's a corner than I suspect some take in 2nd while the front runners probably take in 3rd. Either way the exit is in 3rd which shows how fast the corner is.

Three corners in and the brakes have been used ONCE and even that wasn't a long zone. T4 is a flat out left before the one and only serious braking for the uphill right handers of T5 and T6. These are first gear corners but the approach makes outbraking VERY hard. T7 and T8 are sweepers down Andretti straight ( not sure if they're normally counted but I will for completeness).

T9 is over a blind but whereas the GPL cars would probably break as they went light over the crest.. yep you've guessed it the Sportscars lift, maybe drop a gear and floor it. T10 is a quick, down to 3rd slither through corner before T11 which is a 2nd gear right. 

Eleven corners, 3 braking zones and only 5 corners taken in less than 4th gear. All these medium to high speed corners mean the setup requires some downforce to maximize exit speed.. However I'm considering looking at a low downforce race setup. Due to the track layout I feel the best overtaking chance is keeping close through T6 then slipstreaming past on the long run to T9.