Interlagos Circuit future improvement?

After Stock Car driver Gustavo Sonderman died at Interlagos Circuit, Brazilian authorities confirmed that they had a decision to alter the Curva do Cafe corner earlier this year, but there was no further action on this decision.

Here is the proposal, made with Photoshop, where the straight continues beyond the lake, uses the old Curva 3 and Juncao around the lake and joins back at Ferradura (current turn 6).

The reality is that Interlagos management have to find €50m to improve the track. They will have to accomplish the standard for 2014, that is when its contract is up for renewal.

The improvements as far as we understand are this:

* Re location of the pit complex. (Reta Oposta straight)
* Pit complex to have the standards of new Silverstone/Suzuka ones.
* New pit straight to be lengthened arround 940meters from its current 780meters
* Grandtsand at current T4 to be demolished
* Track to be brought closer to 4.8km from its current 4.3km
* Track to go arround the lake and join on current T5
* Bico De Pato to be reprofiled to a shorter style to allow embankment works at "Subida dos boxes" to make that corner flatter/straighter
* General improvement in drainage: Curva do Sol and Merghullo are bad ones on wet conditions, propper un-driveavle.

All this should increase lap time from arround 1:14 to 1:16, and reduce laps down from 70 to roughly 64.

Interlagos Circuit is a track that needs an update. The track would be a real hard test, it would be hard on engines and lets remember its the last race of the calendar. It would be a race that teams would have to go one way, optimize for the straights and loose time in the twists or optimize for the twists and be compromised in the straights. Also with the weather system at Interlagos Circuit, anything is posible. It would give us one hell of a track that Brazil could be proud of (once again).

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