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And we do have to remember that everyone's in closed cars now, and visibility out of any prototype isn't great.
It's just like McNish's accident at LM in 2011. Allan thought he had the Ferrari cleared and made similar passes earlier that weekend. But out of the Audi, you only had good visibility straight ahead. That lead to the rear view camera that Audi started to run in testing later that season.
And in the Ferrari, Beltoise was in a 458, which has ridiculously bad rear visibility. He turned in not thinking that Allan was there, just as Allan though based on what he saw he was clear. That lead to GT and LMP2 cars having mandatory rear view cameras on them like what Corvette was using for a few years.
I know that we can criticize slower drivers for not using their mirrors and making it hard on overtaking cars, especially if it's not a fight for position. But they're driving their own race too, with their own cars and often their own issues. Just look at even a LMP2 steering wheel, or a GTE steering wheel. Those make the Audi R8 LMP's steering wheel look insanely simple. And we have to remember in fairness to Dumas that he and everyone else in that car were fighting no functioning ASR and probably other electronic gremlins.
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