Cars of GT1 Part 2

"472CID" (472CID) 06/10/2015 at 11:58 • Filed to: USELESSLISTS

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Yesterday we had a look at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! class, today we’ll continue with the GTS and FIA GT1 championship cars. Towards the end of the old GT1, teams were abusing the guidelines to the point the cars were more prototype than GT. In 1999 the governing body behind the 24 hours replaced GT1 with GTS. GTS cars were bigger, more powerful, and more winged than their garden variety GT counterparts. This class ran for about a decade before it was merged into a consolidated grand touring class (GTE). Outside of Le Mans FIA ran a championship for GT1 cars that gained a surprising amount of popularity for a while. Both FIA GT1 and Le Mans GTS produced some of the coolest racecars ever known to man.

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Below is a list of all the make/models in Le Mans GTS and FIA GT1 listed by the first year they raced. Also included is the their best finish at Le Mans (class and overall not necessarily in the same year)

1999 Chrysler Viper GTS-R -1st in class/7th Overall

1999 Porsche 911 GT2 -18th Overall

2000 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R -1st in class 6th Overall

2000 Saleen S7R -1st in class/10th Overall

2002 Ferrari 550 GTS -1st in class/9th overall

2003 Pagani Zonda GR -49th overall

2004 Ferrari 575 GTC

2005 Corvette C6.R -1st in class/4th overall

2005 Aston Martin DBR9 -1st in class/5th overall

2005 Maserati MC12 GT1 -no Le Mans entries

2006 Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT -34th overall

2010 Ford GT1 -41st overall

2009 Nissan GTR GT1 -no Le Mans entries

Wheelerguy > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 12:12

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Oh, so this race car has a TopGear sticker. Are there any more race cars with TopGear stickers?

Wheelerguy > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 12:13

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No Le Mans entries? For shame. It would have rocked.

472CID > Wheelerguy 06/10/2015 at 12:15

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they don’t say Top Gear, but they are Top Gear’s stickers.

Wheelerguy > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 12:16

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I’d so kill to have 550 GTS, Ford GT1, DBR9, S7.R and C6.R toy cars. The small ones that fit in the palm of my hand.

Wheelerguy > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 12:17

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The last hypercar-based racer to win Le Mans, too. I is of sadness.

DrScientist > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 12:34

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i think these classes did as well as they did because they had the cars we wanted to see:

gt-40, front engined v12 ferraris, paganis, murcielagos, mc-12, that aston

its a bit sad these “larger” gt cars have made way for the 911 and 458 dominated gte classes

CaptDale - is secretly British > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 12:59

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HHHHNNNNGGGGG!!!!!

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > 472CID 06/10/2015 at 15:39

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There’s not a bad one among them.

Saleen S7: the first supercar I loved.

MC12: arguably (by me) the prettiest supercar ever.

The Astons: 007 & 009 with the lipstick paint schemes.

C5R and C6R: big V8s overwhelming everything.

So much win.