BAY HEIGHTS

Bay Heights is a Hard-rated street circuit rolling over steep hills above a fog-covered bay. Its signature feature is a single famous climb: a steep ascent to a blind crest followed by an even steeper plunge back down to water level. A row of pastel Victorian houses lines the climb, a cable car waits at the crest beside a white lookout tower, flowers line the switchback descent and a prison island with a lighthouse sits out in the bay.

The crest is the whole track in one corner — arrive too fast and the car goes light exactly where you need steering; arrive right and you carry huge speed into the downhill. Everything else is set-up for that moment.

• Lift slightly before the blind crest so the wheels stay planted for the turn after it.
• Use nitro on the climb, never on the descent — gravity is already doing that job.
• The downhill braking zone is twice as long as it looks; brake stupidly early once, then calibrate.