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Old 11 Jul 2007, 12:03 (Ref:1960625)   #1
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Caparo T1?
Would this car not be an awesome future for sportscar racing?

It's been part designed by Gordon Murray and houses an Indy Car engine (rebadged).
Ok, so it could never be legal in GT1.
Or could it? What are the chances?
Just a wistful thought...

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http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive...ro-T1-3-lg.jpg
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 12:05 (Ref:1960627)   #2
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Nope. Needs place for two ppl, but does not have to have a passanger seat. and continious body work.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 12:35 (Ref:1960653)   #3
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Does have a passenger seat
It's behind and off to the left.

Doesn't matter, it's still awesome.

Power to weight is something like twice as good as a LMP900 R8.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 16:21 (Ref:1960800)   #4
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Would this car not be an awesome future for sportscar racing?
I sincerly hope not

Its disgusting !!!
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 16:41 (Ref:1960811)   #5
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Its disgusting !!!
Agree.
It's a mystery for me why people want to spend money on this "car".
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 16:47 (Ref:1960816)   #6
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Agree.
It's a mystery for me why people want to spend money on this "car".
Its a mystery to me why people want to spend money on TDI Estates , but they do.
oh shyte i got one .....
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 17:05 (Ref:1960830)   #7
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Cars similar to this are already racing globally. It's called single-seater racing. Sportscar racing needs to be different.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 17:11 (Ref:1960840)   #8
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Cars similar to this are already racing globally. It's called single-seater racing. Sportscar racing needs to be different.
Could not agree more!! I would imagine it is a great trackday car but i have no wish to see one racing!!
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The thing really IS a twoseater. I reckon it'll emberrase quite some sportscars' set fastest laps when let loose on the international trackday scene.
By the way,it incorporates a lot of LMP technology.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 17:27 (Ref:1960854)   #10
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It was designed to be a road legal F1 car, so there are no plans, or intentions from the manufacture to have it raced in any series other than a possible spec series for the car.
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Agree.
It's a mystery for me why people want to spend money on this "car".
I thought it belonged to the Austrian national bob sledge team !!!
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 17:28 (Ref:1960858)   #12
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Its a mystery to me why people want to spend money on TDI Estates , but they do.
oh shyte i got one .....
At least you can put the kids in the back of a TDI estate !!
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The thing really IS a twoseater. I reckon it'll emberrase quite some sportscars' set fastest laps when let loose on the international trackday scene. By the way,it incorporates a lot of LMP technology.
I wasn't saying that it wasn't. But, it's designed to look like an F1 car. If they wanted it to look like a sportscar, they would have done something along the Peugeot route.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 21:39 (Ref:1961073)   #14
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Alright, sorry, no innovation then.
Back to yet another DB9 or MC12 generic.
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Alright, sorry, no innovation then.
Back to yet another DB9 or MC12 generic.
It's a cool and very creative car, I'll give it that. But it's just not within the intent of GT1. At least in my opinion. The class is already hugely expensive.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 21:50 (Ref:1961083)   #16
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haha maybe not GT1.
But it looks like a Hot Wheels car, and the world needs more like that, not just another long bonnet.
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Old 11 Jul 2007, 22:03 (Ref:1961094)   #17
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it's not the most attractive car, but it's a cool idea. i don't think it'll ever be seen outside of a single-marque series, as it doesn't fit the rules for any categories. but it would be fun to see what it would do. it's sort of an ultimate version of a radical or westfield, i guess...
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It's nice to see people trying something different...

But it's terribly ugly...
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It doesn't have a continous bodywork. A lightweight special. Maybe in the similar league as Caterham CSR & Westfield Sport S & Lotus 2 Eleven & Ariel Atom & KTM X-Bow etc.? Special class.
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Looks very similar to the New Zealand "Hume" Sports car

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Old 12 Jul 2007, 08:17 (Ref:1961318)   #21
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Old 12 Jul 2007, 12:45 (Ref:1961542)   #22
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this was my degree car back in 1995


a little bit of blurb from a magazine about it http://www.andyblackmoredesign.com/i...re_CarWeek.jpg
it was road legal and model should have had a wing, but didn't (as it looked crap)
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The problem is that it looks like an F1 car that someone has bolted some mudguards to.....interesting enough and certainly quick (although i don't think they hold together for long atm) but not the future of GT racing imo....
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Old 12 Jul 2007, 13:20 (Ref:1961570)   #24
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Svierge has a lot of promise if they can keep it on the circuit!
In reality the car is little more than an LMP2 with different bodywork. Despite the regular lengthy Caparo press releases it's pretty easy to see that they've taken a racecar design and road-registered it.

I don't doubt it'll be an absolutely amazing track day toy, but as an engineering achievement it really doesn't touch the Veyron or the McLaren F1 (which its designers worked on).
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Looks rather like an old Interserie car to me.....

In other words, 'kin awful.........
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