The gate is not moved to compensate for the rails, it's moved to give the horses run-up time to the timing beam.
Those Spa turns are so tight as is, rails plus a wide trip certainly cannot help. To me, the additional distance isn't as bad as the inner horses getting a momentum burst by slingshoting off the turn while wide horses lose that ground.
If you think of a race visually, how often does a horse look awesome 4 wide and then once he loses those few feet he quits?
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