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I've been brought up to hate the atmo cars. My dad blames them for killing the Group C era. I used to have to throw darts at a picture of a 905....
It's a running joke, but he's half right. No one can argue with the fact the XJR 14 and the 905 are spectacular things to watch over a single lap. Maybe my dad's curses have rubbed off on me, but for me, those kind of cars are the defining image of a golden era which withered away before it needed to.
Those things were F1 cars with covered wheels and a roof. Impressive to watch, prohibitively expensive to run, and largely irrelevant. They weren't endurance racers, and more to the point, they weren't Le Mans cars like the old Group C cars were.
It's hard to believe the difference between 1989 and 1992.
I'd love to see one raced properly though. Marmite they may be, they're still part of the history of the race, and they'd sound brilliant.
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