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    Quote Originally Posted by Miatanut
    Shouldn't a curb be something you avoid?
    Exactly Obviously racing drivers are always looking for the quickest way around a circuit, and that sometimes means kerb-hopping, but they are supposed to race on the black stuff after all!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miatanut
    I was thinking more of these:


    I started following in '67, but there were still some of these around then.
    I must have missed the wheeled dustbins racing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miatanut
    I was thinking more of these:


    I started following in '67, but there were still some of these around then.
    How Spa has changed!

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    Yeah, there is less advertising these days!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ioan
    Yeah, there is less advertising these days!
    It looks like a lot of boards doesn't it. But I guess, as TV audiences are astronimic now, less are required to get the same market penetration?
    Opinions are like ar5eholes, everyone has one.

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    I recall David Hobbs saying that when he raced at Le Mans, they painted the trees along the Mulsanne Straight white so the drivers could see them at night. Hobbs said that he would have felt safer if he didn't have to see the trees.
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    Quote Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
    I recall David Hobbs saying that when he raced at Le Mans, they painted the trees along the Mulsanne Straight white so the drivers could see them at night. Hobbs said that he would have felt safer if he didn't have to see the trees.
    Opinions are like ar5eholes, everyone has one.

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    I wonder who bought all those '56 Fords...? Sure as heck can't be many in Europe.

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    Oh look, another F1 track pussyfied.

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    Quote Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
    I recall David Hobbs saying that when he raced at Le Mans, they painted the trees along the Mulsanne Straight white so the drivers could see them at night. Hobbs said that he would have felt safer if he didn't have to see the trees.
    I remember that quote!

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