Well, some part of it is elegant and beautiful. Turn 7&8 is great enough as other high speed turns, and left-hander of turn 11 and consequent, negative-cambered turn 12's relatively small radius make drivers unexpected, making many out-course. Turn 17 series ((14)&15&16&17&18) is also gorgeous part. Cars sweep in to turn 15 and sweep out to the main straight, using lots of tyre wear.
However, the boringness of this new circuit is because of its sequence. Sector 1 is high speed stretches and Sector 2 is high and low speed corners. Sector 3 is city circuit. It makes cars slower and slower until they return to the main straight. Also, turn 11, the main part of the sector 2 makes very very hard to overtake because of its 2-apex property, and sector 3 is city circuit so cars cannot pass each other so easily. So, this circuit allows overtake only on turn 1 and turn 3, even if the driver is very good, or pace is at 5-second difference, or whatever.
So, this is big problem, while the new DRS system is exactly for this problem. DRS system in this season makes cars able to pass at certain point. As this circuit itself makes teams to make strategy to earn time for other parts and maximally tries on the ideal spots for overtaking, DRS may be crucial in the 2011 Korea, and I think that the DRS area may be the longest ever in this season, just before the turn 3.
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