For the uninitiated, the 2010 Indian Grand Prix takes place every working weekday from 7am to 10pm on a street cirtcuit beginning at South Bangalore, all the way to Electronic City and back. It’s one of the slowest races on the F1 calendar with a top speed of 60km/hr, but the real test for the drivers is preserving fuel. Practice, qualifying and the race all take place on the same day. Usually, two wheelers take pole position (occassionally, three wheelers too) and are almost always in the running for a podium finish.
Luckily, the 2011 Indian Grand Prix is to be held at the Jaypee Group Circuit in Greater Noida. However, the way the government has organized the CWG has led me to speculate how it would end up for the Indian Grand Prix 2011. Here are the findings of my hypothesis.
1) Traffic – The teams at the front have constantly complained about traffic, especially at Monaco. In the IGP, they’ll need to worry about traffic too. Oncoming traffic, that is.
2) Safety car – The safety car will be out almost every lap, from start to finish, as a result of the number of stray animals on the track. They’ll also need to ban Bruno Senna, just in case he crashes his vehicle into a dog. Of course, if he rams his vehicle into a cow, then they won’t need to ban Bruno Senna – they’ll have to locate him first – and then perform the autopsy.
3) Pit babes – well, this largely depends on who picks them. I mean, if Vijay Mallya picks the grid girls, we’re doing okay. But if Nithyananda does, the grid girls will need to make pitstops for getting harder tyres too.
4) Team orders – since this is Delhi, and cross-connections are more of a certainty than a possibility, it’ll be interesting to see Ferrari issue a team order, and Hamilton picking it up accidentally. But that would also mean that Brazilian drivers would get more podiums than they would otherwise, which is always a plus.
5) Dry days – I can almost imagine Webber overtaking Alonso at the last turn, coming first on the podium – jump et al – punching his fist in the air, adrenaline pumped. And no champagne. Ha!
Also – must ban Niki Lauda. Or anyone sharing the same surname. Just in case.
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