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Originally Posted by The Badger
Latest news is that the Acura LMP2 cars are being pushed towards potential European customers by Wirth Research acting as negociator .
Great news . Wonder will they rebadge them as Honda ?
Im wondering if RML will be one of the first customers . Im pretty sure they are not too impressed with the Mazda engine , and there are a lot of Lola's out there . If you want to win , you may have to try something differant .
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I've read in Autosport that the Acuras are said to be significantly more expensive to buy and run, particularly the engines, than anything else out there in P2 right now (with the possible exception of Porsche). I'd be somewhat surprised if anyone even bothered when you can run a well sorted Lola-Judd/Mazda much cheaper and still be successful.
That said, if anyone does take on such a task then it may help some Japanese manufacturers come back to LM if they see the cars doing well in Europe as well as America - particularly if the cars made it to Le Mans.