There is something otherworldly about racing cars that should have made their mark but never reached the grid. In today's Great Read, Gary Watkins guides us through motor sport's pitlane of the abandoned, a collection of mysterious machines whose potential was quashed before a wheel was turned in anger
Champagne was poured over the nose according to Porsche tradition and the car the world was expecting to take the marque back to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2000 edged onto the Weissach test track. Many of those at the shakedown — certainly drivers Bob Wollek and Allan McNish — were not aware that it had already been decreed that this would be the final run for the car as well as the first.
And so a machine dubbed the LMP2000 joined the litany of unraced cars strewn through motor sport history. Some were simply not meant to be. Which was the case for the LMP2000. It wasn't so much axed as never given the go-ahead. The same went for the Toyota TF110 Formula 1 car, while others were scuppered by rule changes, the cancellation of series or political whims...
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