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By all accounts, the findings suggested the new track would be more abrasive than other modern circuits.
Sir Frank Williams, for whom Rubens Barrichello finished 10th yesterday, called the lack of excitement "very worrying", putting the blame on the layout of modern circuits and on the format of the races.
The former airfield track has been largely untouched since its first race in 1952, the slabs of patched-together concrete punishing, especially on cars designed to run on pristine modern circuits.
That aside, Sir Jackie's main complaint is that modern circuits have become so safe with their wide, asphalt run-off areas that they no longer penalise a driver for making a mistake.
The 5.1-kilometer track is among the modern circuits renovated by the German racetrack specialist Hermann Tilke, whose company is based in nearby Aachen and who has worked on many of the new Formula One tracks worldwide.
"It's so different compared with the more modern circuits, as the layout means the car needs to be set up differently," said Kimi Raikkonen, a driver at the Lotus team.
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That element means the track transcends the purely manufactured modern circuit.
For my money, Pau knocks the sterile modern circuit into the straw bales.
"It's a good, modern circuit with a couple of interesting touches," said Jenson Button, a driver at the McLaren Mercedes team.
An important observation is that modern circuit designers spend more time managing the created design data than actually running the CAD tools.
As the feature size of CMOS components scales down, the standby power losses due to high leakage currents have become a top concern for modern circuit design.
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