SimHQ.com - Motorsports Zone - Preview: 2004 Bahrain Grand Prix

I will be taking the course during the 2004 season using EA's F1 Challenge '99-'02. To make it more contemporary I will be applying Ralph Hummerich's excellent carset to it as soon as it is ready. I have chosen Ralph's carset as, in addition to him being a thoroughly top notch person, in my opinion his carsets are the best available and it is an honor for SimHQ to have an exclusive Beta version to be able to use for its screenshots. Many thanks Ralph! If you wish to try his 2003 add on please use this link to his page.

A Virtual Lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix Circuit

Heading down the long start/finish straight you brake hard for the first corner. A tight right hander that will be taken in second gear. Accelerating away you go through a right/left sweep accelerating hard down another long straight before again hitting the anchors for a second gear right hander. A shorter straight follows before a left-right section that looks reminiscent of Becketts at Silverstone or Sepang's fast chicane before the drivers hit the brakes for a hairpin right, short straight and then a hairpin left. Another straight follows running parallel to the pitlane which leads into a sweeping left hander rolling into a sweeping right hander (which will probably be taken in fourth or fifth depending upon grip levels) and then leading to another second gear right hander. This leads onto another long straight before yet another second gear right hander sees the drivers back on the pit straight.

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