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Originally Posted by Coach Ep
The Ginettas (nee Zyteks) were very competitive in the pre-cartel P2 era before the constructor was shafted by the ACO and it turned its focus to the good-looking but poorly funded LMP1 effort. There's no reason to believe Ginetta wouldn't have been able to deliver a quality P2 product if given an equally fair opportunity like the other four constructors.
And you can add BR/SMP to that same short list as well.
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As detectable in this very forum, I've always been very critical about most if not basically every decision that ACO took in the last 10 years, but honestly this time I can't blame ACO if they didn't take seriously the lmp2 supplier candidature of a company that struggled a lot even to produce and put on grid a couple of cars for their own racing program...
About BR, they designed and made only 4 chassis of BR01 (the lmp2 car) that in the initial plans had to be a shared lmp2/lmp1 platform, but since the car wasn't that great at all, then they dropped everything in favour of a dallara designed/made car (BR1 lmp1). Beyond anything technically related, we won't see stuff from russia for a long while anyhow. (As it should be).