“We’ve introduced [banking] in Saudi. Although Saudi is, to all intents and purposes, a street circuit that’s going to be utilizing the Corniche in Jeddah, there’s quite a lot of unique circuit being built to tie it all together, and there’s a lovely banked corner at the end of the circuit, which looks pretty impressive.”

-Ross Brawn, Formula 1’s Managing Director of Motorsports, in comments discussing Saudi Arabia’s F1 circuit. “One of the big talking points after the return of the Dutch Grand Prix was Zandvoort’s dramatic new banked corners,” forumula1.com reports. Brawn believes that the banking’s popularity with the drivers justified the creation of similar style corners at the Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia tracks, which will appear on the calendar later this year. [formula1.com]