I just spent a couple of weeks in Valencia and obviously I went to see the F1 Street Circuit. Walking around with Alistair Griffins "Just drive" playing on my mp3-player I took a few pictures that I just wanted to share with you all...Unfortunately I was only able to get to the first part of the track (I didn't find a way on the other side of the harbour), so the pictures end after turn 9. I apologize for that.
So it all starts with a picture of corners 23/24:
This is the view down to turn 25:
This is turn 25:
Here you can see the pit buildings, the pit lane and the main straight. As you all know the pit buildings are former harbor buildings. The pit lane is normally a pedestrian area and the start-line is used as a public road driven in the opposite direction as the F1 race there and as a parking lot:
Here you can see pole position and the start-finish line:
Here is another harbor building from the inside. This one is used as the F1 Paddock Club. The picture is taken from the back of the building. I thought it was pretty funny that people pay a few thousand € to hang around in a shabby building like that. Maybe the pic doesn't really highlight it. But it was really in a bad state.
This is turn 1 (still the same public road as before):
Here is turn 2:
And turn 3 in the background:
Now as you can see, the straight between turn 3 and turn 4 was blocked:
So it all starts with a picture of corners 23/24:
This is the view down to turn 25:
This is turn 25:
Here you can see the pit buildings, the pit lane and the main straight. As you all know the pit buildings are former harbor buildings. The pit lane is normally a pedestrian area and the start-line is used as a public road driven in the opposite direction as the F1 race there and as a parking lot:
Here you can see pole position and the start-finish line:
Here is another harbor building from the inside. This one is used as the F1 Paddock Club. The picture is taken from the back of the building. I thought it was pretty funny that people pay a few thousand € to hang around in a shabby building like that. Maybe the pic doesn't really highlight it. But it was really in a bad state.
This is turn 1 (still the same public road as before):
Here is turn 2:
And turn 3 in the background:
Now as you can see, the straight between turn 3 and turn 4 was blocked: