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These days racing is almost as much about limiting technology as it used to be about encouraging it. Technology is such that, at this point, if they didn't limit it the whole thing would just be a joke and a dangerous joke at that. But is also means that, in some ways, innovation has moved from the racing world to the super-car and sports car world, where those limitations aren't in place.

When Porsche retired its 919 LMP type car, they went back and did a version of it for fun that wasn't limited by regulations. It is ludicrously fast. It lapped the Nurburgring so fast that makes your palms sweat just to watch it. He spends very little time under 120MPH and plenty of times he's 200MPH+, and that's on a very bumpy, tricky track. If you watch the little inset video of the interior, I'm amazed he wasn't concussed by the time he was done.

The 919 Tribute Tour: On-board record lap, Nordschleife. - YouTube[^]

There's some footage from Spa that literally looks like a cartoon because it's going so fast that your brain refuses to accept it's real. At about 1:50 and again at around 2:25, it just doesn't even look real.

|Lap Record!| Porsche 919 EVO "Tribute" At Spa Francorchamps - YouTube[^]

If they allowed real racing sort of leeway, there would be people splattered like bugs all over the track.
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