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EDIT: Below is about GT3, not GT4:

Nick Leventis (Strakka) about their move from McLaren to Mercedes:

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So you are changing manufacturer. Wasn’t the original plan to continue with McLaren?

“When we signed with McLaren for 2017, we all envisaged a longer-term agreement. We at Strakka invested a lot of money in new chassis’, spares, equipment and staff to run the four cars and we would have preferred some consistency for 2018 but there were a number of factors that led us to change.

“The reliability wasn’t where we expected it to be and due in part to BOP and also due to changes in the tyre, we weren’t as quick as Garage 59 had been the previous year even though we had both their Engineers working within the team and many of the drivers carried over.

“All those factors meant we ended up starting in the middle of the pack for a lot of the races and that in turn made us more exposed to crashes. We suffered a lot of damage and I have to say the lads at the workshop put in a lot of long days and nights to get the cars immaculate and to our standards.

“It was a hard season; hard for the drivers, knowing they were pushing to the max and hard for the crew who were doing all they could.

“There were other factors; we just couldn’t match the pit stop times of our rivals and Strakka has always been one of the quickest teams in any category in the pits. We changed what we could, practiced hard to find any gains but there were elements that we were forced to continue with.

“Those negated any gains we made on track.

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Source: http://www.dailysportscar.com/2017/1...mg-switch.html