![]() ![]() Here on SpeedHunters we have posted a few stories on this topic here and here. The complete car was ready for a shakedown in October of that year so the first target on the road to victory in France the following June was passed.ġ998 was a year of intense manufacturer involvement at the Le Mans 24 Hours. The first tub was built and the rest of the chassis was completed by March 1997. One thing was for certain, he had the pedigree to produce a winner as evidenced by his Peugeot 905 design that took convincing victories in 19. What did he know and when? That is one question that you will wait a long for an answer. ![]() Given that the rules at that point did not allow the kind of prototype that he came up with, it begs a few questions as to why he took the radical route, when others such as Nissan did not. Work started on the project in 1996, when former Peugeot designer, Andre de Cortanze, was commissioned to produce a car that would be capable of winning Le Mans by 1998. In the background this project would provide the foundations for the planned Formula One campaign, though few were aware of this ultimate destination at the time. They called on their rally team TTE (Toyota Team Europe) from Germany to build and run the car. However this time it would all be very different. Previously the TOMS organisation had been entrusted with the task and despite a huge budget and resource, they had failed. Toyota's management had decided on a fresh approach to the question of how to win at Le Mans. This paved the way for the launch of the radical Toyota GT One or TS020. Bowing to the inevitable, the restrictions concerning a realtionship to a road car were quietly forgotten by both the FIA, and more importantly, the ACO, custodians of Les Vingt Quatre Heures du Mans. This process accelerated as soon as Mercedes Benz arrived on the horizon with their CLK GTR. Of course as soon as the McLaren F1 GTR (based on a genuine road car) started winning, Porsche chucked the road car element out of the window and built their GT1. Furthermore the road going car had to be offered for sale within 12 months of being homologated. Now on the eve of the opening round of the new GT1 World Championship, it is a very SpeedHunters move to look back at the most extreme GT1 car of them all.Īfter the dark days following the 1992 collapse of sportscar racing and Group C in there was a gradual return to racing GTs that were based on actual road going cars. There was a rule that a racing version of a car had to derived from a model that had been certified for normal road use. Back in late 1997 Toyota unveiled their latest weapon in the continuing quest to take overall victory in Les Vingt Quatre Heures du Mans and the motorsport world took a step back in amazement. R/WarcraftLore for anything related to WoW lore including current and old.Every now and then a car makes an appearance and you just go WOW! You know it has attitude, class, speed and just a whiff of danger. R/WoW is everything you'd ever want from WoW related news to current WoW affairs. Guidelines for Content Creators Weekly Threads Un-flaired posts will be removed by our AutoMod. See the detailed rules for details.įlair your posts correctly. Reposts Intentional Misinformation Troll Posts Google-able questions Reaction gifs Polls etc. Encouraging or condoning these behaviours is also not permitted. No Guild/Player drama.ĭo not share or encourage the use of exploits, cheats, existing private servers, or other illicit game behaviour. Names must be blurred if people are portrayed in a negative light. Don’t encourage others to harass individuals or organizations either within or beyond this community. Breaking this rule will result in an instant ban!! Do not attack or harass other users, engage in hate-speech, or attempt to gate-keep discussion. This is not a community for private servers, current World of Warcraft, streamer drama, etc.īe civil and respectful. If you can't be civil, don't bother postingĬontent must relate to World of Warcraft: Classic. Have a great idea for the sub? Let us know! Rules ChatĬlassic Census/Demographic Survey Survey Results This is a subreddit for the discussion of anything related to World of Warcraft: Classic. ![]()
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