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Originally Posted by gert
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, ... )
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I know BR lmp2 wasn't designed and even made by dallara, but as said since BR engineering isn't a real "engineering" studio, that lmp2 basically was made by some other party, difference is that we just don't know the name.
Yeah remember to have read somewhere that SMP racing european HQ is in france, and as far I know SMP current main activities are racing in gt3 with af corse and use their sponsorship to support russian drivers in F2, F3 or even indy... at least I remember there was a SMP car in indy in recent past.