A Lap Of Magny Cours With Foggy Petronas’ Haydon

A Lap Of Magny Cours With Foggy Petronas’ Haydon

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From a press release issued by Foggy Petronas Racing:

James Haydon’s flying lap of Le Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours (4.411km):

On the start-finish straight you get up into fifth before the fast sweeping left, the Grande Courbe. Coming out of that you drop a hill and flick it into third before a really long right hander, the Estoril, which tightens and tightens. It is difficult to get right coming out, but great when you do. Then it is down a long straight and up to top gear through a kink called Golf. After going under a bridge you hit the brakes going into Imola – the tightest corner in the world – it makes Cadwell Park look like the Craner Curves. Then, going over a brow, the bike wants to wheelie before going under another bridge and hitting the brakes real hard before knocking it down into third for a fast Esses. You come out of the left hard on the gas, hit the brakes and go down into second and stay right over the corner for a tight left, the Nurburgring, in second and then accelerate hard, full throttle, into the right.

Then it’s down a small straight, and down the hill into an awkward right-left down into a hollow, the Chateau D’Eau, where the bike wants to tie itself in knots. Then you drive hard out of the hollow for another tight right-hand hairpin in second, Adelaide. Hard on the gas out of there, you have to watch the rear end before a slight left hand kink in fifth. Using the whole track, it’s hard on the brakes, for another 90 degree right hander, the Complex du Lycee. Then it’s a real squirt on the gas before a left right-left before crossing the start-finish line.

“It’s a good challenging track and I’m glad I have had a couple of days there so I know my way round. And I have to say that Troy was awesome round there on the first day of our test.”

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