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@jeracerx Little known fact for the press release they had to borrow bodywork from Motorbase performance btcc car

Built by Onyx Race Engineering (owned by Mike Earle who also owned Onyx F1), the Focus TCR was an early stalled TCR project. Run by the Italian Proteam Racing, financial issues resulted in development being taken over by Hong Kong's FRD Racing in late 2015, 2016 also saw 3 starts

@jeracerx I actually had a look around the first images car . Some of the cutting under the arches was pure Italian shall we say

A fun fact about the 458 GT3 is that it was actually homologated with 2 different styles of wheels that could be used. While the Motegi wheels would be the choice for most teams, in the car's first year in 2011 it was also run with BBS wheels fairly regularly

@jeracerx Saw this at Silverstone during the Britcar 24 it was quite impressive

Long before their Cadillac exploits, JOTA developed the turbocharged MX-5 GT4 that competed in British GT in 2012. Two class podiums came in the form of a 3rd at Brands Hatch and a 2nd a Snetterton, although the car only finished 2 other races in the 6 weekends it competed in

@jeracerx One ran in @BritishGT aswell

The Monaro 427c is infinitely funnier than the M3 GTR when it comes to "cheated up 2000s GT cars" because while the M3 got its one year in ALMS and then got the rules changed, the Monaro just straight up killed the Bathurst 24 and Nations Cup Championship after 3 years

@jeracerx I want one

Built for the 2013 Dakar, Jose Luis Alvarez built 2 Smart Fortwos (actually Polaris XP 900s with Smart bodywork) for the side-by-side category. Unfortunately the team wasn't able to get the funds together and the Smarts never got the chance to race

@Duffman_D @ForzaMotorsport Great work bud

Used @ChatGPTapp to render the dream spec for my car and this is how it came out. Must say I now need to sell some organs because this is now the goal.

@jeracerx I think it’s because it’s from Europe where the corvette is a separate brand to keep it separate from the complete crap we got as Chevy road cars

Oh yeah, fun fact about the Callaway C7 GT3-R, the reason SRO events always use the Corvette logo and not a Chevy one for it is because it was actually homologated with the brand as "Corvette", which I'm not exactly sure how that works

@5jhdesigns I always liked the 147 . In fact one of my favourite looking cars from that ere

What could the Alfa Romeo GT have looked like as a BTCC car? 👀🔥

@jeracerx I know the man who owns said mt900 now

2009 in British GT saw a battle over Mosler MT900R GT3's status as a national homologated GT3 (It was rejected full GT3 in 06). Ironically this was instigated by the Preci-Spark Ascari KZ1-R GT3 team, which was GT3 homologated despite also not meeting production requirements

@robi4tv Ah man had great conversations with you on here and on forza in the past. Hope life treats you great and enjoy x

@5jhdesigns Oh wow that looks amazing

Daewoo Leganza Supertourer anyone? 👀🔥

@jeracerx @muellerdirk Ah the days of a bit of variety at the n24 before it became another gt3 race. Don’t get me wrong in the smaller classes there is some cool stuff. But I do miss the specials going for overall win

With an absolutely stacked lineup of Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Dominik Schwager, Dirk Müller, and Marcel Engels, a hybrid Gumpert Apollo took on the 2008 Nurburgring 24. Qualifying 22nd, the car would end up not classified only completing 53 laps after a transmission replacement

@jeracerx Some of those are still racing in gt cup I think . But I think they have Chevy v8 now

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In 2006 Team Slater showed up to the British GT Championship's GTC class in a 1994 Marcos LM500. Unsurprisingly the 12-year-old Rover V8 powered car struggled against the contemporary Ferrari 360 Challenges and Porsche 996 Cups that made up the class, 10th was its best result

@Nemoticon @sniffpetrol Thank you . I remember reading about the planned car in @autocar when I was 12 and said one day I would get one . Had it nearly 2 years now and just love driving it .

@chubbyjoeforza @sniffpetrol Lovely car, I still think it looks fantastic today!!🥰

My new car alongside that well-known behemoth, the GR Yaris. #gladtobekei

@Nemoticon @sniffpetrol It was also the cheapest running fully legal brabus I could find in the country

@Nemoticon @sniffpetrol That looks lovely. The only decent pic of mine I can find is the advert I bought it from

@Nemoticon @sniffpetrol Saying that I was under it the other day and I think some rust proofing is needed. Also getting parts is getting harder. On another note I’m only one year older than your car . FYI the car is probably in better shape. I do love the shape of a mk1 mr2

@chubbyjoeforza @sniffpetrol Agreed. However, I'm sure your Smart Brabus rusts less then my MR2, lol. At 37 years old, my poor old weekend car is really showing it's age and becoming harder and harder to maintain.

@Nemoticon @sniffpetrol I can completely understand. I love my smart to the extent that I think it’s my forever car. Despite the fact it looks abandoned most of the time . But a proper gearbox would make it sooooooo much better . I think because of this an mr2 is probably the better car

@chubbyjoeforza @sniffpetrol Well, the impressive part is that the Roadster is almost as light as the Beat. But then again, the Beat is a full decade older. I really do like the Smart Roadster, a fun and funky looking car, though my MR2 did tick more boxes for me👍