{"id":491033,"date":"2009-12-01T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=43081"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:07:15","slug":"courses-character-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/courses-character-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses: Character Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on our TV screens. Or at least on mine. For me, the new breed of supercircuits mostly invokes disappointment and, worse, boredom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are exceptions. Even on TV, which tends to flatten and emasculate a racetrack, the one in Turkey looks fast and swooping and vivid. That four-apex, 160-mph Turn 8 must be a stunner in person. 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