Reinterpreting a classic - how Hockenheim was transformed

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In its former guise, the Hockenheim circuit presented drivers with a hair-raising, flat-out blast through the forests, but by 2002 it as in need of modernisation.

What followed was a radical transformation that created a distinctly different - but no less challenging - track. Ahead of this weekend's Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2014, we investigate how - and why - it was done