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5 Jul 2005, 04:46
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Best Sportscar Never to win Le Mans
The other thread about the worst sportscar effort got me thinking about the best sportscar never to win at Le Mans.
I'll state the obvious: The Toyota 020S of 1998-1999.
Curious to hear others.
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5 Jul 2005, 05:02
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Mercedes CLK series that managed to dominate FIA GT, but didn't succeed in three years of trying at LM. Remember how dominating that was in FIA?
The Ferrari 512's were pretty decent cars too, but alas the 917's were better.
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5 Jul 2005, 05:16
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I'll go with the TS020, with TS010 in second.
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5 Jul 2005, 06:06
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What about the Panoz LMP-1, didn't ever really get close but I reckon it was a great car. The Nissan R90 was also pretty good. This years Pescarolo !!!!!
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5 Jul 2005, 07:40
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The Most beautiful has to be the Ferrari P4.
The Best is probably the Toyota GT1?
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5 Jul 2005, 08:47
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I have to agree with lj79 and Mal. Toyota have produced some of the quickest and most breathtakingly beautiful closed top cars ever seen at Le Mans. If I've remembered correctly, just one pole in 99, but fastest lap of the race in 92, 93, 98 and 99. And whilst the opposition was better in 92, 93 and 98, 1999 really should have been victory for the GT-One, the best sportscar never to win Le Mans. Unfinished business Toyota?
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5 Jul 2005, 09:18
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The Toyota GT1
Pescarolo : not... yet ! 
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Last edited by Fab; 5 Jul 2005 at 13:51.
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5 Jul 2005, 10:35
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Bugatti EB110
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5 Jul 2005, 10:42
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Lancia LC-2 (or even at a push, the LC-1) - always rooted for a Porsche when I lived through it, but in retrospect the Lancias were gorgeous cars, the team had a distinctive ethos (largely in hiring quick Italian F1 drivers) and a win for Lancia would have added a welcome degree of variety to the Group C era.
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5 Jul 2005, 10:50
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Hmmm, I think it was McNish´s Porsche which set fastest lap in 98 but I can not remember. anyway, I also think toyota deserved a win for that GT1.
also, for just the beauty, that Ferrari P4...
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5 Jul 2005, 11:16
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Any way you lokk at it - definitely the TS010s on 92-93 or the TS020s of 98-99. Glorious cars, on both looks and sounds.
But the word "best" can mean many things. For me, these were the best cars (in terms of performance and looks) never to win Le Mans. Certainly the best looking cars by miles.... (although the R390 Nissan was a looker too - but nothing like good enough, performance-wise).
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5 Jul 2005, 11:21
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Hmmm, I think it was McNish´s Porsche which set fastest lap in 98 but I can not remember. anyway, I also think toyota deserved a win for that GT1.
also, for just the beauty, that Ferrari P4...
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No, it was Brundle in the #28 Toyota - 3:41.809 on lap 86.
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5 Jul 2005, 12:03
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Ferrari 312/512 - the misfortune to be up against the 917 and then legislated out to let the Matras win.
Oh, and the Mercs in 1955...
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5 Jul 2005, 12:30
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Welcome to the forum isynge. I agree about the Lancia, my all time favourite Sportscar. Without them, we would have had Porsches (956 / 962) all the way for the years before TWR bought the Jaguar out to play. The LC2 was always blindingly fast in qualifying, and put on great early showings, but getting through 24 hours was not a strong point. Obviously a biased post, but never mind.
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5 Jul 2005, 12:42
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We're all biased in one way or another!
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