300 km h 186 mph 320 km h 200 mph That in a nutshell is auto racing s most famous courage corner It s called Raidillon de l Eau Rouge or Eau Rouge in short named after the small babbling stream underneath the race track at Spa Francorchamps Above it the world s fastest cars have been fly ing through the forest since 1921 with Formula One cars sports proto types and GTs leading the way Now it s flat out or close to it In the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix Vettel Hamil ton and company shot through Eau Rouge in eighth the highest gear without lifting at near 300 km h 186 mph Although Formula One in 2019 might be a little bit slower with the front wings of its cars having been widened again courage just like concentration and precision is still an absolute must in high speed weaving through this S curve mon ster with millimeter perfection If there s a corner in which higher speed and the related risk of an off track excursion gives an ad vantage then we have no choice as racers That for me is a courage cor ner says Lucas di Grassi The sea soned Brazilian racer is the reigning Formula E teams champion and fac tory driver of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team Get it right or get off track Allan McNish his team princi pal and and as a former race driver in timately familiar with the fastest race cars in Formula One and the World 300 km h 186 mph and more the Eau Rouge 1 and Blanchimont 2 courage corners Which corner Lift For Michael Schumacher Eau Rouge 1 was more of a courage straight than a courage corner His fellow racer Gerhard Berger once described the near 300 km h 186 mph ride through the famous left right combination of the Ardennes roller coaster in these words You see a mountain in front of you like an impenetrable wall Then the sky gray or blue Blanchimont 2 is the second famous courage corner of the tradition steeped Belgian cir cuit The left hand bend shortly before the end of the Spa lap leads toward the finish chicane Speed up to 320 km h 200 mph EAU ROUGE BLANCHIMONT SPA B Just a blink of the eye and there it is Like a rogue wave at the end of the high speed downhill sec tion Nearly 25 meters 82 feet high So wide so steep A tarmac skyward ramp Up it in a heartbeat across it in a heartbeat Blind flight with goose bumps and bated breath with a 17 percent gradient and a heart rate close to 200 Because you can t see what s beyond From one second to the next the valley swallows you and spits you out again on the hill some 120 meters 394 feet later with the cen trifugal hammer hitting you hard in the process left right and from above To top it off it tries to pull you out of your seat And ultimately puts the car s suspension through its paces like there was no tomorrow global 27

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