These days,your average Le Mans prototype race car doesn’t so much resemble a car you can buy as it does a 90-million-Euro single-seater multirole fighter jet with twin turbofan engines, capable of 20000 afterburner-propelled pounds of thrust, or a 65000-ft service ceiling,and 9 g turns, carrying eight tons of bristling weaponry, and including HARM,Brimstone, and Storm Shadow air-to-surface missiles, and all the buttons,gizmos, geegaws, and screens,and fail-secure computer redundancies that would give Gemini-era NASA engineers collective aneurysms.
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