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Originally Posted by DistortedSmile
The TS020 absolutely was widely loved and still is, that you don't like it is an entirely different thing. Funny you should mention the original GT1 Porsches since they started the homologation special trend that eventually killed the class and were against the spirit of the rules as much as the later more extreme cars like the Mercedes and the Toyota, the difference is Toyota never bothered pretending the cars were anything other than prototypes.
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I believe Toyota learned the lesson of 1994 when Porsche raced a 962 in GT1 (Dauer 962), taking the rules advantage that GT1s had.
So with the TS020 they created the most extreme that the regulation allowed.
Porsche and Mercedes also raced the FIA GT and I understand that the FIA required larger cabins than the ACO, even the FIA accepted smaller cabins in 1998, I remember that the Nissan R390 GT1 was not admitted in the 1000 KM of Suzuka in 1997 and it had a larger cabin than the 911 GT1 1998 and the CLK LM.