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Originally Posted by bluespur
Long time since 3.5 circuit used. Suggest that there are a majority of current competitors have never used it and a fair number would not even know about it.
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Agreed Bluespur, one of the last times it was used, was for the final Benson and Hedges 500 race in 1986 which was won by Gianfranco Brancatelli and Allan Grice driving my ex works, FAG sponsored BMW M3.
I raced the car the following year, but on the shortened circuit, so that would have been sometime in 1987 that the switch was made permanently.
The problem with the original circuit was that that the cars disappeared from the spectators sitting in the main grandstands for at least 25 seconds, before re-appearing down the short straight into "Railway"
The original circuit was really tough on brakes back in the days of drum rear's and the lack of dual braking systems back then!