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Originally Posted by The Badger
Oh , is that like Jaguar didnt win Le Mans in 1988 or 1990 ? Or Audi havent won Le Mans either !!!
The teams doing the running were employed by the manufacturers to run and represant them .
So , Mazda won , as did Audi and Jaguar .
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TWR = British, Jaguar = British
Joest = German, Audi = German.
Oreca = French, Mazda = Japanese.
My point is that granted, a Japanese car has won Le Mans; but
the Japanese haven't won Le Mans. Basically, it would be really nice to see a Japanese manufacturer win Le Mans, run by a Japanese team with at least one Japanese driver, running with the Japanese ethos of racing.
What's made GT1 so exciting is the different approach of Aston Martin and Corvette - true Britain against true USA. LMP1, and all top classes at La Sarthe in recent times, has been boring by watching a battle between Europe, and not the continents - that's why we're all crying out for Panoz to come back to the prototype scene. So I'd love to see a proper Japanese car racing at Le Mans - and not a European team driving a European-designed car with a Nissan/Toyota/Mazda/Honda badge on the front.