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Originally Posted by mceci1
The rules then were more relaxed and more manufacturers were involved. 1992 was the last time that Nissan ran, so they had to make 21 years catch up in 2013 as a team and factory. Mercedes hadn't run for that or even longer, again they had a lot of making up to do, Volvo in 2014 had about the same. You are saying to me its easy for them to get a car and run it again, no its not. When Nissan, Volvo and Mercedes had that much to catch on Ford and Holden they have their work cut out for them in 2013. Also, a car isn't the identity of the team; rubbish. A car/ or manufacturer is a face of a factory team, for example HRT, FPR, Polestar, Nissan. They didn't just have an idea one day of lets put this as our name. They have it for a reason
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What relationship is there between the Nissan, Mercedes and Volvo teams of old and the Supercar teams?
None, zero, zilch.
Garry Rogers has a long history or running different types of cars - the mid '90's was an especially busy time for GRM in that respect.
Kelly Racing had been established a number of years prior to taking on the Nissan project.
And Erebus was running Mercedes in GT racing before purchasing the assets of SBR. Replacing managers, staff walking out, drivers refusing to honour contracts might be symptoms of a poorly executed business plan, but it isn't wasn't s start up business (team).