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3. Algarve Circuit

In Portugal, the Algarve circuit made its debut in Formula 1 and gave a chance to the country to hold an F1 race for the first time since 1996, and it quite impressed everyone, despite the usual podium results. With none of the drivers in the current paddock ever driven on this circuit, unexpected was expected

Alpha Tauri driver felt that he was driving on a roller-coaster while giving feedback on the circuit “It was really cool,” said the AphaTauri driver. “The first few laps when I went out, I got this feeling as you get in your stomach when you’re on a rollercoaster.”

“After turn eight, going up the hill and down I really had the same feeling, and I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve never felt that in a Formula 1 car.’ “It’s quite challenging – there’s a lot of blind corners, high-speed, low-speed corner braking. It’s quite unusual in that way. I like when tracks are unique, and I think this is, so it’s pretty cool.”

Gasly was not alone, and even Lando Norris gave positive feedback to the circuit. Sebastian Vettel also impresses by it went onto that F1 needs to pick the right circuits.

“It probably proves that we have plenty of tracks that are exciting (citing Algarve), we just need to pick the right ones,” said Vettel.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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