At over 300 kilometers an hour surrounded by walls. This is how pilots deal with a ride Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve Montreal, where this weekend the Canadian Grand Prix.

The former pilot Formula 1 analyzed for ‘players‘how is a return to the mythical Canadian track, and he did it with the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso thanks to a state-of-the-art simulator.

The Canadian layout has one of the highest average speeds of the seasonwhich, combined with the walls along the way and the asphalt of a semi-urban circuitdo it one of the most demanding in the world.

curves 1 and 2

The first “chicane” is very demanding for the drivers. It’s a narrow zone in which you slow down in support, which means that the car becomes very unstable.

From ‘pole position’ to braking there are barely 200 meterss, so having a good start will be key at the start. This area usually causes many incidentss, especially in the first round.

The fork

Turn 10 is the slowest on the circuit. You arrive in eighth gear, at more than 300 kilometers per hour, and slows down to 70 km/h. This is one of the main overtaking points, although most fans remember it as where Robert Kubica had a horrific accident in 2007 which left him with several broken bones in the legs.

The ‘chicane’ of the wall of champions

The final stage of the Champions Circuit is one of the most famous areas of the World Championship. He arrives after a straight line of more than a kilometer in which the DRS is activated. It goes from 320 km/h to barely 100.

Although the speed is not very high, the pronounced curb inside means that any miscalculation sends the car against the famous “Wall of Champions”‘, who receives this name for claiming victims as Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve either Sebastian Vettel.