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Originally Posted by S griffin
They did slightly change Foggy's by opening up the right hander, thus making it a little faster
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No, they did not. The right hand turn at the Esses, now called Robert's, was moved back so the track now "splits" evenly on both right and left. The right hander used to be about 50-75m further on & was a bit tighter.
This was done to prevent vehicles - trucks especially - having the opportunity to go head on into the wall under the Goddard's hospitality suites. It also made a large tarmac "escape road" which limits racers ending up in the gravel either side, although they obviously still manage that from time to time (I've pushed enough of them out!).
One side effect of that is that entry speed to Redgate went up somewhat which slightly reduced the effect of the cutback wide line in, making overtaking there a bit harder than it was - it was always a ballsy move before, anyway.
If you use Google Earth's timeline feature you can easily flick between the two layouts and compare.