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18 Feb 2004, 05:58
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18 Feb 2004, 05:59
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18 Feb 2004, 06:00
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Notice how the back of the provisionnal grandstands is refurbished with tarmac (starting straight)...
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18 Feb 2004, 06:01
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Another view...
PS : Ayse and Paul, I'm not sure that all this is interresting for the forum, feel free to delete the posts !
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18 Feb 2004, 10:02
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Fab, does the gravel in the trap look like the same sharp kind that has caused so many problems with tyres?
It looks like some of the traps have been extended, does this mean the viewing areas have been pushed back. (is this because they expect McCrash this year!)
The new tramac behind the grandstand is welcome. does this extend all the way down?
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18 Feb 2004, 10:06
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Dunlop Bridge
No chance that the run to the esses has been put back to the way it should be 
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18 Feb 2004, 10:43
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is it just me or does it look like they've opened up the dunlop chicane for better overtaking and to carry more speed thru there into the new section after the bridge?
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18 Feb 2004, 10:56
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Fab, does the gravel in the trap look like the same sharp kind that has caused so many problems with tyres?
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Yes, they didn't change it.
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It looks like some of the traps have been extended, does this mean the viewing areas have been pushed back. (is this because they expect McCrash this year!)
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For now, I don't think so. Actally, they destroyed the inside concrete wall (not the one beeing side of the public, but the small one track side). There's now ARMCO (is it the accurate word) - watch pics above. The public is not pushed away, because the public's side wall didn't move.
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The new tramac behind the grandstand is welcome. does this extend all the way down?
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No, it stops at the end of the ACO GS : after, it's the same ol' shtupid dust ! 
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is it just me or does it look like they've opened up the dunlop chicane for better overtaking and to carry more speed thru there into the new section after the bridge?
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No, the track is not opened wider here, but there's more tarmac behind the kerbs... anyway, this esse is gonna be changed in the years to come, at the demand of motorbikes. But changed how ? I dunno... 
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25 Sep 2004, 06:37
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Works in progress at LM
The big work stuff began at LM : the open road behind the Ford chicanes will move back to let more place to the public along the track : check it on Infocourse...
There'll be a wider gravel trap at the last Ford chicane, just before the starting straight, to avoid fatal wreckages at this spot - and maybe give more confidence to the drivers !
And more to come after the 2005' race...
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4 Nov 2004, 06:10
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FYI : some pics of the work in progress at LM track, source Infocourse.
The Ford chicane is going to be modified.
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FYI : some pics of the work in progress at LM track, source Infocourse.
The Ford chicane is going to be modified.
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There are also some pics on DSC
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4 Nov 2004, 07:47
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Don't tell me, they're taking the chicanes off the Mulsanne, undoing the carbuncle on the run to the Esses?
Stuff of dreams....... 
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4 Nov 2004, 09:37
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FYI : some pics of the work in progress at LM track, source Infocourse.
The Ford chicane is going to be modified.
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I've always enjoyed watching from there, but also felt uncomfortable for the drivers, they should have more protection. But I expect it's really being done for the bikes, who come into that corner from a quite different and as I recall, more dangerous angle.
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30 Nov 2004, 05:29
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Works STILL in progress at LM : check the Claude Foubert's pics, taken at the Ford chicane...
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30 Nov 2004, 22:37
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As a photographer, thats one of the best spots specially during qualifying wed. and thurs. nights.
I hope that the redrawing of the chicane won't hurt the angle us photogs get!
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