Azerbaijan Grand Prix officials are not planning on making changes to the circuit in light of the new regulations ahead of the 2017 season.
Head of communications of the Baku city circuit Nigar Arpadarai told Read Motorsport that no major changes are planned. “It’s not easy to make changes to the track configuration” she said.
“We do not plan to make any major changes to the configuration, it will stay as it is.”
With the tight and twisty castle section, this could be an area that officials may look at, with the new 2 metre wide cars it could cause a few problems through the part of the circuit, the entrance to the corner did catch a few drivers out at the inaugural race in 2016.
Other areas of the circuit, such as the high speed Turns 13 and 14 could also require attention if a car was to spin off into concrete walls on the outside.
“We may change some of the corners and some areas to make it in line with key standards and requirements, but overall the track configuration will not change.
“Because it’s a city track, there are not many opportunities to change some things.”
Last week Australian Grand Prix officials announced that they were making changes to some of the corners around the Melbourne street circuit due to the faster nature of the new cars in 2017.
The tyre walls were have been re-profiled at Turns 1, 6 and 14 with an additional $100,000 worth of Tecpro barrier being added to turn 14 due to its high speed nature.
