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I do not care for the chicanes along the Mulsanne, but they are not there just to test brakes and force the teams to changes rotors and pads. Speeds had gotten too high. Speed differentials were too much between the GT1/LMP classes and GT2/GTS cars. How would you like to hit the back of a Viper going 220mph when you are going 260mph in an Audi R8 LMP? At night? The Mulsanne used to be the most dangerous piece of motor racing real estate in the world, especially at night, until the introduction of the two chicanes. Sure, no one really likes them, but no one likes the chances of having an unlimited straight away either. The chances of making it down it in one piece are not good.
And before you [Franklin] break out with some take on LSR cars or drag racing cars going faster, none of them race in the dark with nothing more than their headlights to show the way. That is part of the mystique of LeMans. It is not LS records attempt racing or drag racing.
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