Talk:Born for Victory/@comment-27095714-20151021055553/@comment-26264344-20151021085414

Oh yes, I am glad more and more people know of its history, and that they are realising how a great racecar that was. It raced as a GT spec car in various championships and races that ranged from BPR GT (that later become FIA GT), Japanese GTC and, of course, Le Mans.

Due to different regulations, they were able to compete with the bigger boys at that time. And success at '95 Le Mans owed a lot to Mr. Motokazu Sayama who persuaded Gordon Murray to lend him #01R one time only for LM, because other privateer teams had been assured no works car (#01R - the test mule) should compete with customer cars.

Backed by a torrential rain all weekend and fuel thirsty Courage C34 driven by Andretti, Wollek, Helary, it helped McLaren to have a 1-3-4-5 finish. The crucial factor why a test mule won the LM and not the customer teams is that #01R had some different parts in its suspension and gearbox, which did not fail as they did in customer teams.

I hoped for FM would add racing liveries to F1 GTR, but they did not do so. Now, I will try and replicate some of them, first thing when I get my hands on one! :)