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Tilke: We can't build ten Red Bull rings

Formula 1 track designer Hermann Tilke has come out in defence of his work on the much-maligned Yas Marina Circuit, suggesting he did the best he could under the circumstances. Host of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the Yas Marina Circuit has been widely panned in its twelve years of existence for creating processional races, but Tilke says it is important to recognise the parameters he was forced to work with. “The Yas Hotel, which is integrated into the circuit, has two hundred rooms,” he explained to Der Standard. “But nine months before the end of construction it was said that it should be twice as big. 'Then we built the same hotel again and put it in the water in front of it. A city...
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