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Originally Posted by carbsmith
What's strange about BMW Motorsport being involved in a BMW powered car that they provide the engines for? Nearly every McLaren that raced in period had BMW branding on it somewhere, from 1996-1998 always the "powered by BMW logo" on every car, and in 1995 a mix of it on the DPR cars, "BMW V12" on the back of the Ueno Clinic car, and a local BMW dealership on the Gulf cars.
Every McLaren built had BMW logos on the cylinder heads from the start.
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It was wierd because bmw supplied only the engine for that car..... basically it was just like if in mid-2000 ford fielded a work team using a pair of saleen s7r or a GM work team with a pair of mosler MT900....
Another thing to consider is that during winter the mazda riley chassis went trought an intensive rear subframes/structure rework to improve cooling and to give to the car a new rear suspensions system. Don't know if gibson engine and all the related hardware could be fitted in that modifed chassis.