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10R was available for use in the Mine JGTC race!!
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I highly doubt that option. Nick Mason would have told that in his "Into the Red" book as he goes there to much of the details of the 10R's testing records. I can't believe he would have left such out.
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The Lark GTR in the book and owned by McLaren, is most probably 14R. I can only see Ron owning championship and LeMan winning GTR,s ie:- 01R and 20R.
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Why not then have 03R and 12R. At least 12R has been for sale so he could have bought it back.
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Although we have not seen this cars chassis plate, its to full 96 spec, even down to its lighter spec wiring loom, as can be seen by the position of the ECU on the cabin bulkhead. 95 cars had the ECU lower down in the passenger seat area.
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If what is told about the damages of 04R are true, it would have necessitated to strip it to quite much to the "bones" before starting the repairs, so after that it could have been built easily to '96 specs.
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One thing to bare in mind though, if 04R,s tub was repaired it would have been stripped bare and sent back to Shalford. The process of repair, would have seen the damaged sections deskinned from the tub and then rebuilt to as good as new.
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That must have been what happened with 24R as the cabin section was really badly damaged after Nielsen's shunt. The left A-pillar was cut in the accident.
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If this was the case, then this tub (04R) may have been replated and used to build another GTR. 09R perhaps?? the timeline would suggest this may have been possible. We all know 27R and 28R had their plates changed at birth.
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I would highly doubt that it was built to 09R. I've read it from so many different places that 09R was purpose built for the Sultan as McLaren did not sell the 01R. And in some test the driver (Sultan's own stuff) told the passenger (reporter?) that this (09R) performs better as the 01R as it is completely new as the 01R has many tests and 24H race on its "belt".
Any more ideas?
