285 km h 177 mph 340 km h 211 mph As rally drivers always follow the pace notes read to them by their co drivers is the term courage cor ners even relevant in rally racing Because we re only allowed to drive the routes before the event at a maximum of 80 km h 50 mph we have a description of every corner but you never know exactly how fast you can handle such a turn when you approach it at 100 km h 62 mph more or even faster That s why in rallies and off road endurance races the fastest corners are always courage corners How risky are they compared to those in circuit racing The risk in rally racing is generally to be rated higher even in compar ison to a challenging circuit like the Nürburgring Nordschleife The rea son is that there you can approach a courage corner lap by lap to see if you ll be able to handle it flat out or not In rallies you only get one shot at it Your favorite courage corners Colin s Crest on the WRC course in Sweden for example You jump across a hilltop fly a 40 meter 131 foot distance and continue offset on the right hand side You have to make a pinpoint landing in the ice lane or else you ll end up in the snow with far too little traction Another great place is the sequence of count less courage corners in the Monte Carlo Rally at Col de Turini when the conditions become increasingly icy going uphill If you re too fast there only once your rally is over COURAGE CORNERS IN RALLIES ARMIN SCHWARZ EXPLAINS Armin Schwarz World Rally Championship racer from 1988 2005 and now an off road endurance racing driver driver coach and long standing Schaeffler brand ambassador Lucas di Grassi about the wild city tour In a GT3 sports car you drive at a minimum of 285 km h 177 mph in the heart of the city with the guard rails directly lining the track on the left and right Signes used to be a true 300 km h 186 mph plus courage corner Today the right hander has been defused by a chicane in front of it and wide run off areas Top speed continues to be high Formula One races through the apex at nearly 340 km h 211 mph MANDARINE BEND MACAU MAC SIGNES LE CASTELLET F suddenly turned into two in the mega sports car Timo Bernhard explains it this way That s where you have to grit your teeth even on the approach because you arrive at more than 330 km h 205 mph brake on surface bumps the car gets off the line and even before that you have to turn the wheel toward the left The following double left hander called Courage Corner in Nürburgring speak loses some of its bite in the prototype but The next right hander with its blind turn in and the guard rails on the left close to the track deserves being labeled Courage Corner 2 0 in an LMP1 car Bernhard admits That s where I had to concentrate extremely and really bring my self to do it Just like in the Stefan Bellof S at the Pflanzgarten exit where I was at the limit with my speed processing Allan McNish fittingly con cludes this courage corner discus sion You have to show respect to courage corners If you don t they will bite you and show you that that they are the boss and not you global 31

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