{"id":11698,"date":"2012-11-17T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2012-11-17T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T10:47:54","slug":"us-gp-the-circuit-is-awesome-says-nico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11698","title":{"rendered":"US Grand Prix: The circuit is awesome, says Nico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"saharaforceindia\" src=\"images\/racing\/saharaforceindia.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" \/>Austin, Texas:<\/strong> Sahara Force India enjoyed its first taste of the Circuit of the Americas on Friday as Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg completed busy free practice programmes in preparation for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the circuit, Nico said that it was awesome.&nbsp; \u201cI think the organisers have given us an awesome circuit. It\u2019s good fun to drive and there is a nice variation of corners, which gives a nice rhythm to the track. In terms of the new generation of tracks, I\u2019d say it\u2019s one of my favourites. The day was pretty smooth and we had to make sure we collected lots of data because we don\u2019t have any historic information to draw upon. We looked competitive this morning and seemed to struggle more in the afternoon, so we need to try and find some more grip overnight.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Paul Di Resta said, \u201cI said yesterday that getting the tyres working was going to be difficult \u2013 and so it proved today. The track surface is very smooth and the temperatures were not especially high, which probably didn\u2019t help us. We\u2019ve identified some issues and haven\u2019t found the best direction with the set-up yet, so we need to work hard to make the car easier to drive. In terms of the layout of the track it\u2019s very open and there are some nice corners, especially the first sector which has a great flow. A lot of the corners are off-camber, which also adds another challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Andreasen, Chief Engineer, said, \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been the easiest day of practice for us and we need to work hard tonight to make the car perform better on this challenging circuit. We struggled in the first session with low grip \u2013 just as everyone did \u2013 but we didn\u2019t find much improvement in the afternoon session. The layout here is a bit like Suzuka with a mix of high and low-speed corners, but it\u2019s fair to say we haven\u2019t found the right compromise with the set-up to cope with these two extremes. On the positive side our long run performance looked quite encouraging and when we go over the data tonight I\u2019m sure we will find the clues to help us make the right decisions with the set-up going into tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"saharaforceindia\" src=\"images\/racing\/saharaforceindia.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" \/>Austin, Texas:<\/strong> Sahara Force India enjoyed its first taste of the Circuit of the Americas on Friday as Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg completed busy free practice programmes in preparation for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the circuit, Nico said that it was awesome.&nbsp; \u201cI think the organisers have given us an awesome circuit. It\u2019s good fun to drive and there is a nice variation of corners, which gives a nice rhythm to the track. In terms of the new generation of tracks, I\u2019d say it\u2019s one of my favourites. The day was pretty smooth and we had to make sure we collected lots of data because we don\u2019t have any historic information to draw upon. We looked competitive this morning and seemed to struggle more in the afternoon, so we need to try and find some more grip overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1502,1816,1501],"class_list":["post-11698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-racing-racing","tag-nico-hulkenberg","tag-paul-di-resta","tag-sahara-force-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Grand Prix: The circuit is awesome, says Nico - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11698\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Grand Prix: The circuit is awesome, says Nico - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Austin, Texas: Sahara Force India enjoyed its first taste of the Circuit of the Americas on Friday as Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg completed busy free practice programmes in preparation for Sunday\u2019s race. 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