Marko Hanželic
Last year's performance Grand Prix of Turkey passed in a sign of a lack of grip as the racers bent to feel as if racing on ice. The new asphalt surface did not in itself offer any grip, and in the rain everything was on the verge of regularity.
Turkish organizers are trying not to repeat the story from last year, so they decided to high pressure wash, as this is supposed to provide more grip. "The entire surface of the track has been treated in order to give the race cars more grip," explains the FIA racing director,Michael Massi: "The entire track was washed under high pressure, which is common practice to provide a rougher surface."
Despite last year's fiasco Masi He did not want to blame the Turks for the grip problems: "Last year, due to the pandemic and the search for alternatives, everything happened very quickly, so there was no time to take care of all the details. This year things will be different, ” provides Masi.
