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Originally Posted by old man
Just who in the organisation insisted on an LMP1 programme we shall never know, that it was a mistake is clear with hindsite and G H-C was in charge.
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It's definitely clear and obvious to say that the AMR-One was a mistake. A huge mistake. Was the Lola-V12 a mistake? That's harder to say. On one hand, building and running that took away from building a competent GT2/GTE car. On the other hand, the Lola-V12 was quite successful in terms of wins in the ALMS and LMS and it did win the LMS title in 2009. Perhaps it had a better shot at winning titles in the LMS (back when it was new) than the GT2 car did even with equal development. It's hard to say. LMP1 and GT2 were both quite competitive in the LMS back during that time period.
Either way, it is obvious now that the only prototypes AMR should consider are LMP2s. Maybe an LMP1 for the ALMS, but building a new car and hoping to sell them to ALMS teams is probably not a good idea either. Ultimately they really should just put all their effort into developing the Vantage so that they can show themselves well to potential sponsors/collectors for the factory team and regain the trust of the privateers.