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Max: New tracks can learn from old-school Zandvoort

Max Verstappen feels there are lessons to be learned in track design from the mistake-punishing Circuit Zandvoort. One year later than planned, the Dutch Grand Prix finally made its return to the Formula 1 calendar in 2021, and in doing so the series welcomed back an old friend in Zandvoort. The track is not quite as Formula 1 remembered it though, with the introduction of banking at Turn 3 and the final corner proving popular, although it is still a tight, challenging circuit with walls and gravel leaving little margin for error. Tracks which heavily punish driver error have become a rarity, but Verstappen believes Zandvoort demonstrates what a circuit used in Formula 1 should be like....
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