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"Oh yea, the Mulsanne straight also has some quick elevation changes - the type that can get a car to fly if an aero mistake is made, as Mercedes found out to their embarassment. The flight time would have been a record if the cars was going any faster, but that isn't what LeMans is all about !"
Yeah, the two chicanes on the Mulsanne slowed the cars down so much that eleven years after the Peugeot attained 252 mph on the Mulsanne, the Mercedes designers couldn't even figure out how to keep a car on the ground at 180 mph.
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