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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
I think sometimes we can be a little picky about who does what for some of these teams. Yes ART and AF Corse ran SMP branded cars, and yes the BR01 was constructed by Dallara. But it was designed by Cantone specifically for BR.
Technically speaking, Joest ran the Audi Le Mans project and the majority of Audi chassis were constructed by Dallara (later R18s being YCOM).
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truth lies somewhere in between, dallara and YCOM were hired mainly as carbon tub manufacturer, but audi lmp1 cars were designed and developed by audi sport assisted by joest guys as well.
BR "engineering" effort was just put BR stickers on cars designed, made and developed by someone else. The whole SMP racing is actually just a gimmick.
Around the world there aren't many carbon specialists studios able to produce carbon tubs for racing cars, so most of them work as "OEM" supplying carbon tubs (or part of them) to requiring customers.
At example all GT500 carbon tubs are made by Toray Carbon Magic and then supplied to nissan, toyota and honda. Dallara produces haas f1 carbon tubs and bodywork parts. Also 2014 ligier lmp2 carbon tubs and other parts were made in italy (according to some old rumors)