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Originally Posted by Simmi
Yep definitely interesting.
I don't in all honesty think that they will partner with Onroak to build the car, but they might be able to use Oak operationally. There's a lot of great people and knowledge there. Similar to what Toyota have done with Oreca.
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In the past, a lot of Nissan's Le Mans efforts have bought in the chassis design from outside- IIRC the Group C cars were March or Lola, the R390 GT1 car was TWR, the R391 at the end of the 90's was done by G-Force, with some input from Courage, and of course the DeltaWing was Bowlby/AAR around an Aston AMR-One tub .
On the other hand, (and slightly back on topic for this thread
), with the ZEOD-RC, they've now got Bowlby on board, which suggests they might be looking at an 'in-house' LMP1 chassis- although I still wouldn't be that surprised to see Onroak brought in as a contractor to at least build the tubs (who's doing the ZEOD- Is it an 'in-house NISMO build, RML, or have they farmed the job out elsewhere?) etc, and maybe put in some operational support like the Toyota/Oreca deal.