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Le Mans lap guide

1. DUNLOP CHICANE

“It’s easy to brake too late, lock the rears, but if you get the first apex right the second follows nicely. It’s faster than you think and you can carry quite a lot of throttle through the second part as the track curves uphill and you crest the rise under Dunlop Bridge. You can be quite rude with the track limits on the exit depending on how closely they’re watching us. It’s an ever-evolving ‘arms race’ between the drivers and Race Control.”

2. THE ESSES & DUNLOP CURVES

“You need to watch for the bump in the right hander after the left-hand

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