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Originally Posted by RED55
Teams building cars for respective championships could develop their own parts within the st regs. There was something on the suspension that was different between the cars in UK and Germany,some kind of multilink variation I think , I believe it was tested on the Uk cars but outlawed by the BTCC .
Ludo Lacroix (now 888 V8 tech boss in Aus) was the engineer that ran Aiello in STW and he followed him to Nissan in BTCC, a very clever engineer who helped unlock something in the STW 406 and took with him that suspension understanding to RML hence the Nissans form.
There wasnt any real controlled parts back then so the sky was the limit and Germany were probably spending 3 times the btcc budget.
For sure very interesting days from a technical point of view .
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Yeah the Nissans ran a multilink system in the suspension, originating from the 4wd Nissan Primera rather then from the FWD Primera. However, the Nissan was already on form in 98 when Ried almost took the title from Rydell, and I do belive Nissan won the constructors title in 98. And it wasnt only RML that unlocked that potensial, also Team Dynamics did it remember.
