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Originally Posted by Taxi645
From the 2019 Monaco GP thread:
To improve overtaking in Monaco, sacrilege or possible improvement?
Idea being that it helps overtaking at the chicane at the end of the tunnel by:
1 Making it easier to drive an alternative line and stay closer to the front car accelerating towards the tunnel.
2 Slightly longer straight allowing the natural slip stream to have more time (marginal effect is suspect).
3 Slightly higher speed approaching the chicane, resulting in longer braking zones and more chance of an overtake. (again marginal effect I suspect).
Side effect would be to have a nice more fluid chicane added to the Monaco track at Mirabeau Bas.
Second nice side effect you get a very nice shot of the sea there with the correct camera position.
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They have “reclaimed” land and are building around that area. If you have google earth on a computer the latest image taken this year at some point, there is/was a big hole in the middle of that proposed extension.