We start our lap at start/finish.
The tunnel is gone!
Behind the run off area from the first corner of the A1 Ring, you
will find this fence leading to the old part of the circuit.
The first corner of the old Österreichring, the Hella Light.
Original a fast long right hander but since 1977 a chicane was added
to the corner.
Here the flat out left kink called Flatschach.
The Dr. Tiroch Kurve (Kurve is German for corner), a long right
hander.
This is the highest point of the old Österreichring. From here we go
downhill at the Valvoline-Gerade (Valvoline Straight).
Another fence at the point where we're leaving the lost part of the
Österreichring.
And there's the A1-Ring again.
At the end of the Valvoline-Gerade the Bosch Kurve was waiting.
Original it was a hairpin with no run off area! Since the rebuilt to
A1 Ring the hairpin has moved inside to create space for a gravel
trap.
Short after the Bosch Kurve came two fast lefthanders. With the
reconstruction of the circuit to A1 Ring, the corners where moved
inside with a smaller radius. The asphalt which follows a wider
corner is a part of the original circuit (See also the map above at
this page).
After the double lefthander a right kink leading to a straight.
At the end of this straight was a long fast right hander, the Jochen
Rindt Kurve. Called after the late Austrian Formula 1 driver who
became posthumously World Champion in 1970. But also this corer has
been reconstructed when the circuit was reconstructed to A1 Ring.
Now there it's a combination of two corners, the first is a middle
speed corner ...
While the second one is a very slow corner which leads to the main
straight ...
At the end of the new corner you can recognise the curve of the
original Jochen Rindt Kurve.
