I wonder..

[rizal_eg9]

Good Day guys,

I'm not really a big fan off SIC.(don't have enough money to go the often as compare to BTSC). hehe. But i'm just wondering why with all the nice setups,layout and well prep facilities,not to mention the corners,they do not come out with a cool name for the corners. It is always refer to as turn 1,2,3 etc. front straight or back straight. (if there is, sorry for my ignorance)

Unlike BTSC u have snakes, shell straight, new loop, lucas loop ( one off the best ), rothmans corner. It just lack off something when it don't have a cool name.What do you guys think.

 

[faisal]

Rizal,

Unlike legendary circuits like Brands Hatch (where some corners were named after racing heroes like Clark, Hill, Surtees) and Spa-Francorchamps (they have cool names too like Eau Roge, and Blanchimont) and Nurburgring Norsrdschleife (Karroussel) , Sepang Circuit have numbers to denote the corners.

However I recall during the 1999 Formula 1 GP the corners were named after sponsors, which actually was how those corners you mention at BT3 got their names. Rothman for example was renamed Lucky Strike during the early Motorcyle GP days in the early 90's.

Personally I'd have the turns name after Racing heroes.

If It was up to me I'd rename Turn 5/6 after Senna, Senna's Esses?

And T 12 after Schuey ( anyone seen that guy's on board shot in qualifying, correcting mid corner while goin oh-so-fast?)

And 7&8 after Vale Rossi , and T9 after Nicky Hayden ( never seen anyone enter that turn as sideways as he did on 2 wheels)

 

[minivan]

yeah, there are no cool names. the only one i know is that some riders call turn 15 (last turn) "mushroom", coz of the mushroom shaped grandstand there...

refering to "snakes" at Bt3... i'd give that name to turns (5 and 6) or (12 and 13) at Sepang... two long sweeping corners full of understeer...
http://www.marco-schueler.de/images/GPMalaysia01tdS-99.jpg

 

[SpeedWanker]

here r some "cool" names.. kekeke.. i wonder who came up with them?

 

[rizal_eg9]

Those corners name for the corners was for the first F1 race. Sound really stupid. glad they get rid off those.

 

[rizal_eg9]

Faisal,

Yup. we don't have big heroes to name the corners after. but they come out with pretty cool name for BTSC. Even most off the corners on other tracks is not name after a legend. stove and the hangar straight for example in silverstone sounds cool. I guess it is just down to no sponsor like you mentioned for rothmans corner aka lucky strike corner in BTSC.

By the way, who have had the privillege negotiating the old lucas without the new loop in BTSC. How does it feels like??? I'm sure it must be pretty scarry.

By the way HAYDEN is cool man. but i think i prefer BEN BOSTROM. he looks more scary. His elbow will be really low almost touching the track.

 

[MK84]

They had names. Like that pic shows. But not memorable names. Personally I name the corners after whoever went off bigtime there. :D

 

[fordrunger]

arent the corners named after malaysian attributres. like i think there is a langkawi corner somewhere..no?

 

[faisal]

Faisal,

Yup. we don't have big heroes to name the corners after. but they come out with pretty cool name for BTSC. Even most off the corners on other tracks is not name after a legend. stove and the hangar straight for example in silverstone sounds cool. I guess it is just down to no sponsor like you mentioned for rothmans corner aka lucky strike corner in BTSC.

By the way, who have had the privillege negotiating the old lucas without the new loop in BTSC. How does it feels like??? I'm sure it must be pretty scarry.

By the way HAYDEN is cool man. but i think i prefer BEN BOSTROM. he looks more scary. His elbow will be really low almost touching the track.

Ben Bostrom.. Too bad he didn't do too well to progress from SBK to MotoGP. Really liked his Ducati 916/998 colours, Red with blue stripes (forgotten the sponsor). I still remember his "Captain America" outfit when he raced in the US round. way cool.

 

[faisal]

They had names. Like that pic shows. But not memorable names. Personally I name the corners after whoever went off bigtime there. :D

Like that Turn 12 would have like 20 names hahah

 

[MK84]

Hahaha I think more than that ler. Even the Amprex Lambo went off there once (360-ed). But most memorable has to be Kenboy's teammate mid-air flip.

 

[rizal_eg9]

mid-air flip!!!I can still remember the hyper racing ek doing the very same thing at the end off shell straight back then. Poor Halim drove straight into the pit i think after getting the first class seat watchin the mid air flip

 

[Kenboy]

MK, u suppose to get me a copy of the video!. u do have it on video yes??

 

[simonchangwaimun]

They had names. Like that pic shows. But not memorable names. Personally I name the corners after whoever went off bigtime there. :D

wahaha
turn 9 hair pin = simon's [pussy]hairpin
haha
but overall,i think the whole sepang track corners will be named after me
hahahhahahahahah
p/s:lousy driver here

 

[MK84]

Kenboy, have to check with SIC. Since it's from the CCTV feed.

 

[BabyGodzillaGTi-R]

wah name every corner after some make a big boo boo or accidentn or interest actions... kekeke

turn 9, Kenari MME Corner
Turn 6, 4th gear Dori Corner
Turn 12, Amprex/ Kenboy Corner
Turn 7, MK84 Corner

Something to that tune lah.....