Buemi looks forward to fun in Korea

Immediately after the Japanese Grand Prix, I headed back to Europe and spent the following Tuesday in the simulator to get some experience of what we might find in Korea.

Apart from that, I managed to spend some time with my family as well as do the usual work on the training front. Back to the Korean track, it looks interesting enough with a very long straight, while the corners cover a really big range of types, from very slow to very fast. You get a sense from the simulator that the track layout is very much in the style of the more recent circuits designed by Hermann Tilke in that he has been able to create a wide track and the overall length is one of the longest on the calendar at around 5.6 kilometres.

I can’t wait for Friday to find out how accurate was our work on the simulator and how our STR5 car will go here. I hope that we will have the F-Duct at last for a race weekend, after testing it a few times, because the track characteristics, especially the long straight, mean that this technology could deliver a significant advantage. Other teams have had it for a while, so it would be good to join them on the same level in this respect. If we get it to work well, then I think we really can aim to qualify higher up the grid than usual on Saturday.

I’m looking forward to this trip, as it will be interesting to visit not just a new Grand Prix venue, but also a country I have never been to and I hope to be able to also spent a bit of time in the capital, Seoul. Experiencing a new country and a new culture with a different way of life is always interesting, the location of the track near the sea also looks very nice, so the key question will be if the people know enough about Formula 1 to want to attend the race at the track itself and provide a good crowd on Sunday.

From Sébastien Buemi’s blog on www.tororosso.com