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Old 28 Dec 2023, 18:24 (Ref:4190087)   #79
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Originally Posted by billy bleach View Post
There have been two mythical Merc Supertouring projects that I have heard mention of years ago. One built by Dynamics and one by Prodrive. Both vetoed by Mercedes and apparently bought and crushed by them before ever seeing the light of day. Indeed there was talk in Ireland of a Merc BTCC project very recently that came to nothing for similar reasons
IIRC, the Prodrive Merc was fully backed by AMG, with drivers on board ready to run too (Tim Sugden and Bernd Schneider). But Mercedes pulled out of the plan late.
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