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Originally Posted by duke_toaster
All this, after building a woefully uncompetitive front engined prototype a while ago?
Either sticking the engine in the front will be a stroke of genius, or really not work. The latter happened last time, and will probably happen again.
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While I agree that sticking the engine in the front may not be the best idea, the Panoz was not woefully uncompetitive. In 1999 it won the ALMS manufacturer and team championships over BMW, Ferrari, Porsche and Audi in that order. They also finished 3rd in 2000 and 2nd in 2001, 2002 and 2003 against some fairly big-time efforts by Audi, Cadillac, Lola, etc. Also, the Panoz had a few decent runs at Le Mans, a track for which it was not ideally suited. All-in-all, quite a decent and fun car to watch.
DK