Welcome to Spa.
欢迎来到水疗中心。
No, Spa, home of one of Formula One's best racetracks, and also, yes, namesake of The Spa.
不,斯帕是F1最佳赛道之一的所在地,也是水疗中心(Spa)同名的发源地。
But what makes it so good?
但究竟是什么让它如此出色?
What makes any F1 track good?
什么让一条F1赛道出色?
In many ways, it's a subjective question.
从很多方面来看,这是个主观问题。
In fact, I'm sure my comments feature many Spa haters enraged that it was my example of a good track, despite its infrastructure problems and crashiness.
No F1 track will ever have an approval rating of 100%, but nevertheless, today we're figuring out how you design a great one.
There are two parts of this.
First, you have to design a track that is allowed to host an F1 race at all per the sport's governing body, the FIA.
They have many, many pages of standards required to host a Grand Prix, both to promote exciting racing and, more importantly, to guarantee some level of safety in a sport all about ripping cars around at top speed.