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OK - some facts - from the horses mouth as it were (ie from within the BR organisation)
The BR01 would have carried on with development if the regs had not changed for 2017 - that's the only reason SMP switched to the Dallara chassis btw
They built more than 4 chassis - in fact five were sold to BBM Sport and their backers for onward sale
Ref the Daytona pole - The DPs and LMP2s were BoPed together - it is not correct to say that the LMP2s were uncompetitive - in fact LMP2 cars won three of the four enduros that year. It was indeed wet for qualifying at the Rolex - in fact the Prototype pole time was slower than the GTLMs which qualified before the rain came.
The BR was hobbled in its early life by an inability to run on the then-dominant Dunlops - a legacy of sanctions against Boris Rotenberg - That changed into its second season and the car was instantly on the pace.
The BR and the Strakka Dome S103 were the cars that persuaded the ACO to implement the changes to the LMP2 formula for 2017, they were concerned that a motivated team or individual could dominate by funding a factory-level effort in a class designed as high-level customer racing.
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