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Austrian Grand Prix: What you should swerve in Spielberg

Like a race track situated in the middle of a lid of a box of chocolates sold in an Alpine tourist shop, the Red Bull Ring is the most picturesque of grand prix circuits. It slaloms around a verdant wooded hillside in the Styrian mountains, rising gently up towards snow peaks before descending again. It is on the same site - and uses some of the same track - as the magnificent old Osterreichring, which hosted F1 in the 1970s and 1980s. But the new version is not only considerably shorter but also nowhere near as grand. The Osterreichring was an awe-inspiring combination of brutally fast corners, the names of which still resonate in motorsport folklore - Glatz Kurve, Texaco Schikane and,...
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