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Originally Posted by matthewb0051
Add to that the fact that the teams have spotters telling the drivers where to go on track. That makes no sense to me.
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It is a safety issue.
On a short track with 15 second lap time you can be going into one side of a turn and have the wreck be at a stop on the other side. You wouldn't know it until it is too late to join it. You can't go from a 150 to zero in the scant time from it'd come into view on a 180 degree large radius turn.
Similar applies to the super speeds ways, but speeds might be in the 220MPH-240MPH range. Imagine a 917 taking corners at it's exit speed on the mainstraight of Le Mans. Then imagine an oil slick, or crash. That 917 is smacking straight into whatever hazard is around that theoretical high speed corner.