BRANDS HATCH INDY CIRCUIT
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near Swanley in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 British Grand Prix’s between 1964 and 1986 and still hold many British and international racing events today.
Brands Hatch is made up of 5 sectors!! on GT6.
Sector one contains one of the most renowned corner in all of motor racing.
Sector two is one of the shortest sectors in GT6
Sector three has the greatest elevation change in GT6
Sector four has the two tightest corners on Brands Hatch Indy Circuit.
Sector five has a hill in the middle of a high speed corner and contains the finish line.
SECTOR 1 (turns 1 & 2)
Paddock Hill Bend
At the start/finish line you move out towards the left
Brake at the brow of the rise/hill, turn in alongside the corner of the gravel trap.
Apex the corner just over the second rise/brow down the hill and be accelerating just before you get to the apex. and continue up the Hailwood Hill.
Druids Bend
start braking on the left and immediately aim toward the inside curb. after you reach the apex accelerate through the corner and down the hill.
SECTOR 2 (Turn 3)
Graham Hill Bend
squeeze on the brakes and increase your turn into the apex. at apex roll off the break and avoid using the inside curb, let the car run out on exit and use the outside curb to complete the corner. accelerate down the Cooper Straight.
SECTOR 3 (Turn 4)
Surtees
turn in alongside the gap in the barrier on the right. let the car roll in and out of the tight, ever decreasing radius, right hand bend.
Back straight
upon exit accelerate hard up the hill down into Pilgrims Drop and up the Hawthorne Hill.
SECTOR 4 (Turn 5, 6 &7)
Hawthorne Bend
start on the left and break slightly setting the car up to search for grip and the apex of this fast sweeping off camber right hander, careful do not hit the inside curb or run wide on exit here or you will end up in the wall or the grass.
Derek Mitter Straight
accelerate hard down this straight set up on the left side for the next corner
Westfield Bend
This is a tight off camber corner with a blind exit, break and turn into the apex with care not to hit the inside curb or too much speed as you will run wide into the car eating sand on the left
Dingle Hill & Sheene Curve
accelerate down the dip being careful not to touch the grass on the left and climb up Sheene Curve
this is the most difficult corner on the circuit. It is an uphill, off camber, blind entry corner that must be taken at med speed to achieve a good lap time.
break while still heading uphill, turn in early aim at the inside curb and try not to run wide on exit.
SECTOR 5 (Turns 8 & 9)
Sterlings Bend
accelerate hard down the straight move to the right side and break hard wide stabbing the car towards the inside of this tight left hand 90° corner. don’t cut the inside curb or run wide over the outside curb here and accelerate down the straight into Clearways.(its a clearing in the forest)
Clearways
Clearways is a mild right bend where many breaking duels happen. get this corner/bend/passage right as it leads immediately into the next tough turn.
Clark Curve
right after Clearway’s is the uphill-downhill, tight, off camber right hander that leads into the Brabham Straight.
get on the power after the crest let the car fall away to the left and then bring the car back to the right to hug the pit wall along the straight.