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Old 5 Oct 2004, 23:23 (Ref:1116449)   #2
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thebear should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridthebear should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Sebring's variable course length, explained



1950 Track was 3.5 miles long

1952 Track was 5.2 miles long

1966 Warehouse Turn re-routed

1983 Backstraight (16-17) re-routed, 4.86 miles long

1987 Turn 1 revised and 2-3-4 loop around Flagpole added, 4.11 miles long

1991 Current Turn 2-3-4-5-6 added, turn 10-11-12-13 revised to current configuration, 3.7 miles long

1997 Turn 8-9 revised to "Fangio Chicaine" in order to provide more of a margin of safety to the regular road traffic adjacent to the track on driver's left. Turn 15-16 revised to current configuration which is mostly ignored as drivers tend to go wide at turn 15.

1998 Turn 7 revised from Hairpin to Safetypin per the request of Mario Andretti and the CART (now OWRS) organization. They only run at the track for purposes of `spring training' or early testing.

see http://www.marshalspost.com/circuit/80.html for an illustration that has relavance starting with 1991.

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