To me, it goes back to what Derek Bell said at LM in 2011: in his time, you had bigger top speed separation between the classes and, especially at LM, more straightaways to pass cars on. Now LM has the chicanes and the sweeping S section from Dunlop Bridge to the actual Esses. And there's not as huge a gap in top speed between GT cars and Prototypes. Granted, a lot of that does go all the way back 25 years ago to the start of the air restrictor days.
But we do see a lot more passes being made under braking and in cornering vs down a straight away compared to earlier times. And even then, most passes on straights happen because prototypes are lighter and accelerate quicker, and hit their top speeds earlier. IE, especially the hybrid cars, are quicker, but not necessarily faster.
No matter what, though, as long as we have humans driving cars that make judgement calls--some good, some bad--on both side of the spectrum, there will always be collisions and accidents.
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