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Originally Posted by canaglia
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.
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Except for the BR01, which was not designed by Dallara. The BR1 was, though.
The BR01 was designed by Catone while working for BR Engineering. There was a piece about it in a French magazine (Auto-Hebdo or Sport-Auto? I can't remember)
That BR01 was at first not run by AF Corse either, but was later on.
At that time they also switched car numbers.
AFAIK, SMP has a French base, dating back to a Formula Renault 3.5 World Series team they took over.
That was run by a former French driver turned team owner (Guerin, Besson ?) and a few in-house projects were run by what remained of that organization, from France.
Most of the times, like you said, "SMP Racing" is run by someone else (AF Corse, AVF, Russian Bears, Baporo, ART, ... )