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Titolo: [ENG] Monaco set for radical overhaul

Source: 
formula1.com
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines02/05/s9586.html
Monaco harbour 
The jewel in the crown of the FIA Formula One World Championship&#8482;,
the Monaco Grand Prix, is set for a facelift over the coming years.
The Monagasque government are to undertake an extensive re-fit of the
legendary harbour to create a wider track, better pits facility, new pit
entry and a new chicane on the exit to the Swimming Pool complex.
The change to the Swimming Pool complex will mean a tighter exit chicane
and a slower entry speed into Rascasse, where there are several accidents
every year.
Giant new grandstands are to be created on the extension to the
harbour-side next to Rascasse hairpin in time for the 2003 race, and
there will be a completely new pits complex with overhead offices for the
year after.
When part of the harbour has been filled by hundreds of tonnes of
concrete in the first phase it will create extra space for significantly
larger pits and a pit lane which adheres to the regulations laid down by
the FIA for other circuits. Until now Monaco has had an exemption because
of the shortage of space.
The most radical change will be the pits, which will face out to sea
rather than inland as it currently does. The difficulty of this is that
the start line will remain where it is so team co-ordinators on the pit
wall will not be able to see the start.
In three other phases lasting until 2006, and co-ordinated by a four-man
design team, extra grandstands will be created around the Swimming Pool
complex creating 10,000 more seats.
There are to be 5,000 new VIP seats on the concrete 'land' and the
grandstand on the exit to the Swimming Pool will double in size to 2,000
seats.
The much criticised and cramped pits will be significantly larger with
offices on the second floor. But it will all still be a temporary affair
that will be pulled down after each race.
Beneath the pits will be a an underground gallery feeding water,
electricity and fibre optic cables into the track for the team's use.
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 concrete in the first phase
Fantastico! Posso essere d'accordo che su alcuni tracciati "storici"
ci si dia un'enorme pena a salvare qualche albero, però certo i
monegaschi non guardano in faccia a nessuno...
 
-- 
Alessio F. Bragadini            
ale...@sevenseas.org
"La libertà è una forma di disciplina"

 non guardano in faccia a nessuno...
Oddio, nel porto di Montecarlo, cemento piu' cemento meno, non mi pare
cambi granche', non si tratta di cementificare una zona "selvaggia" :-))

 because of the shortage of space.
shortage of space, ma anche il fatto che a Monaco si doveva _comunque_
correre. Lo stesso vale per il Canada, tanto per dire : circuiti che non
sono per nulla al livello di sicurezza che invece e' richiesto ad altre
piste, con spese non trascurabili....

Dettagli e disegni a 
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns06368.html
-- 
Alessio F. Bragadini		
ale...@sevenseas.org
"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." -- Bluto

 Dettagli e disegni a 
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns06368.html
Quindi in sostanza il tracciato della pista non varia, cambia soltanto la 
conformazione dei box. 
Vedendo pero' questa immagine :
http://www.grandprix.com/jpeg/misc/monacopits4-lg.jpg
una idea diversa potrebbe essere "raddrizzare" la pista dalle piscine alla 
rascasse, togliendo la seconda chicane, e facendo passare la pista nella 
zona "rossa" "sotto" l'attuale tracciato, dove verrebbe messa la tribuna. 
In questo modo si prenderebbe un po' di velocita' fra la prima chicane 
delle piscine e la Rascasse, con una bella staccata e possibilita' di 
sorpasso....