They've turned the circut into giant point & squirt karting track. Its all about short straights and chicanes. You scrabble through a chicane then mash down on the throttle, throw on the anchors and pop & fart through another chicane. There's no flow to the circut anymore, and bashing through chicanes is hardly a test of a drivers ability. Why in the f**ck are they so afraid of medium and high speed corners? Thats where you really separate the men from the boys. Its laughable to watch on TV too. They're destroying all of the hallmarks and heritage of the place. When I became a racing fan and I thought of Le Mans, things like the Mulsanne Straight, the fairground next to the esses, the Dunlop curve, the old pits, were all what came to mind. They're all gone now, it might as well be Jerez or Valencia. The place bares no resemblence at all to the circut that existed for decades. If I go back this year, it'll be to see friends and have a good party, to be honest the race itself has become a piss-poor shadow of what it once was and holds little interest for me. If I want to watch a race I'll go to Sebring or Road Atlanta.
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