Talk:Perseverance/@comment-217.101.51.79-20180524235704/@comment-31668816-20180525082716

Well the Porsche 911 GT1, and subsequent 911 GT1 Evo and 911 GT1-98, were developed from the ground up as racing cars. Although the frontal chassis of the original Porsche 911 GT1 was shared with the then (993) 911, the rear was essentially lifted from the Porsche 962. To satisfy homoligation requirements road cars, or in the case of the GT1-98 a single road car, were built. Even then the road cars came after the racing cars.

I suspect that the mirrors on the Porsche, and I refer to the real one, are mounted in that way, the right hand mirror being further back and lower, to satisfy visibilty requirements. That's either from a rule book perspective or simply because of the position of the driver's head within the vehicle.

The Toyota GT-One had similarly staggered mirrors, those on the Mercedes CLK LM, McLaren F1 GTR and Nissan R390 GT1 all had 'conventional' mirror symmetry.

Note that I didn't say LM GT or LMP because they are irrelevent to the initial query.

As an aside the entry classes in the 1998 Le Mans race were GT1, GT2, LMP1 and LMP2.