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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
If the best we can say about a car is "they only needed to build it" then I think we're setting the bar very low for what can be considered "good".
It ran 1 race, qualified last in its class, with 1 car being in the LMP2 pack and the lead car being 1 second ahead of the LMP2 pole, and 8 seconds off of pole (or 4 seconds off of the lead privateer LMP1).
It almost certainly had the potential to be good - but the car which raced was not, unfortunately.
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True Akrapovic. Okay let's say the base development was pretty good and much better than the Rebellion or the ByKolles. But to show the car's potential you have to go testing and testing and testing. You need to find a good set-up mechanically and on the aero side and you need to make the car bulletproof. During the test work you find all the small or maybe even larger details you have to rework.
That's was the strong point of Porsche in the Group C . Some latter car's were better and even the early Lancia was better in several points but on track the Porsche was the car to beat.
The Ginetta nearly never run and did not much testing. Despite all they changed the engine supplier.Already developed aero parts never made it on the car and important people left the team pretty early. The car was good but it had no chance to prove it for several different reasons.