More earthworks at LM

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Thanks to the great www.dailysportscar.com site for the photos


Earthworks At Le Mans
These photographs (taken by Claude Foubert today, December 19) indicate that the changes to the approach of the Dunlop Chicane at Le Mans are more significant than the sketches suggested.

The final image shows the view from the main entrance of the circuit (next to the museum) and what has happened to the tunnel leading to the village and the paddock.

 

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[jpchenet]

I hope they are going to pull their finger out, it's only 6 months to go!!!!!

[Bob U]

What the f**k are the ACO up to?  :oI thought Le Mans was a road race for road going based cars, they are turning the place into a sterile F1 type circuit. Personally I think they f**ked it up when they changed the run down to esses, and you can guarentee that the viewing areas will be even further away with this lasest change.

[Nordic]

I hope they are going to pull their finger out, it's only 6 months to go!!!!!

The track works should be finished by march next year.

The entrance to the Dunlop chicane should be better as it well have a little straight before it and the chicane is tighter, so it should be easier to overtake.
It also means the pit exit can be up a bit to make it possible to have the extra garages for 07.

Not sure if the 'village' will be complete by then.

I may be a lone voice but I think the village revamp was well over due.

[Fax]

Looks like the worlds largest sandbox to me.  What the f**k is the matter with that bunch?  Do they just like rippping up the tarmac and re-configuring the circut for the hell of it?  I agree with Bob, its looks like just another piece of sh*t new F1 circut now.  Completely devoid of any character.
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[neilsie]

looks good to me - the dunlop chincane was put in anyway to slow the bikes down.   that exercise has been repeated twice i think over the last 100 years. 

[Lorry]

I may be a lone voice but I think the village revamp was well over due.

A revamp yes, but I'm worried it will no longer be the village - just stands for the big outfits, and "corporate hospitality" venues.  As for the track, all we get is more chicanes, and they've ruined the balance of the esses.

[Steve Pyro]

So the Dunlop press tower definatley got pulled down then 

That's it then ..... March 2006 - SEBRING 12 HOURS for me. 

[Lazy B'stard]

Where will the fair go? will it be on the other side of MB like last year? don't know about you lot but one of the enduring images of LM for me was the lights of the fair and the big wheel behind the Dunlop press tower viewed from the tribunes.
Looking at the pics of the revamped village on the ACOs site the area where the tower stood has a couple of what look like enclosed grandstand/seating areas, more ,club privee' maybe?? will there be anywhere for us plebs to watch from by the end of the decade?

[Fax]

If I'm getting this correctly, the Dunlop chicane is going to be tighter?!  Which begs the question WHY?!  What the f**ck!  Do they want to make sure the cars come to complete stop before accelerating away?  Why not put a traffic light there complete with a school crossing guard...
I may be bit old fashioned but I always thought part of the premise of motor racing was cars actually going fast.
Stupid f**ckers is the thought that springs to mind when I think of the ACO.
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[Lorry]

It all started when they got rid of the Pontlieuie Hairpin at the back of Carrefour.  There are more injuries in football and in the home.  1955 was 50 years ago, and Jo Gartner's death must be nearly 20.  Are the insurance companies to blame?

[Fax]

I honestly think playing ice hockey is more dangerous than motor racing these days.  The sport has become sanitized to the point of making me want to puke.  The circut at Le Mans is a f**k*ng joke, a drivers biggest concern now is how much gravel he's going to get in his shoes climbing out of the gravel trap.  This is no longer a sport for heroes, not the same walking the tightrope with a big safety net under you.
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[Lorry]

Now there's not a lot of Ice Hockey in the UK, but an old friend used to play, and a puck came through the glass screen and took out his wife's top lip and most of her teeth. 

None of my friends have been injured in motorsport, either spectating, marshalling or competing, although there have been a few misses, and I have seen the ambulance out a few times.  (My nephew did crash a kart at a social event, and it was the damn helmet that cut his chin.)

I'd like to keep it this way but not at any cost.  Flying can be dangerous, but we still do it.