Turn 13 Adelaide’s new hot spot
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 3 December 2022
The Adelaide street circuit has grown a reputation for being brutal on man and machine with many hot spots such as the tricky Senna Chicane, bumpy Turn 4 or daring Turn 8, but a new “evil” corner has been added to the list this year.
The largely innocuous fast Turn 13 right-hander before the final hairpin has caught out many drivers across the categories throughout the VALO Adelaide 500.
Shane van Gisbergen was the most notable victim, “pushing too hard” and getting out of shape at the sweeping corner which led him to locking up and going off at the final corner and qualifying at the back.
Triple Eight Race Engineering also suffered the biggest damage from the corner in the GT World Challenge support category where Prince Jefri Ibrahim’s weekend finish after finding the concrete.
Prior to this year Turn 13 was hardly talked about with the horrible Qualifying crash between Greg Murphy and Jonathon Webb in 2012 the biggest moment.
But now with the resurfaced track from Turn 9 to Turn 7 and are going faster than ever before, the right-hander and especially the inside kerb just before pit entry has been causing drivers lots of headaches.
This has even been the case for provisional pole sitter Chaz Mostert, who said it is very is to be caught out and get a “double bounce” which can throw the driver to the point of no return.
“Because the grip level is up so much and we are going faster through there than we normally have, I have noticed you can get a bit greedy with the kerb and you get a bad double bounce out of there,” he said.
“By the time it recovers because there is so much grip there it is almost too late by the time car settles and you are almost in the grass.
“You can be aggressive, but by turning in too early I had a couple of moments in Practice.”
The man who finished third in Qualifying Scott Pye said the corner has some “evil” consequences if you get it wrong.
“That double bounce is pretty evil,” he said.
“A car that generally has a lot of turn is struggling here more than one that maybe has less than other places just because the car has so much grip that you are picking up a lot of front end which makes it nervous.
“Off the kerb I think some cars are struggling with a bit of braking instability, which means you carry the brake a little bit too far into the corner.
“Once you have locked that inside front there is no forgiveness in that corner.
“I just saw what happened before and it has happened to a lot of people, it is a tricky place to get right.”
How the drivers navigate Turn 13 could decide who lands pole for Race 33 in today’s Top 10 Shootout, which kicks off at 12.35PM local time.
2022 VALO Adelaide 500 schedule
Saturday, December 3
11.00-11.30 Supercars Practice 3
12.35-13.05 Supercars Top 10 Shootout
15.15-17.15 Supercars Race 33 (78 laps)
Sunday, December 4
11.00-11.15 Supercars Qualifying
12.05-12.35 Supercars Top 10 Shootout
14.45-16.45 Supercars Race 34 (78 laps)
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