Images
courtesy and copyright John
Brooks, Greg Cooper,
Dave
Davies at Club Arnage, James
Davies,
Patrick Michl,
and Michael J.
Fuller,
Text
copyright Michael
J. Fuller
Debuted
to the press Friday evening before the 2000 Petit Le Mans, the brand new
designed Panoz LMP07 was to be a new chapter in the continuing Panoz Epic.
But instead it tuned into a near debacle. If it wasn't for the mid-season
scrapping of the LMP07 and two successive wins for, ironically, the old
LMP1, 2001 would have been a miserable year.
"For LMP07, my main targets were improved mass distribution (low Cg, low polar moment, no difference between full tank and empty tank), improved driver safety, and more efficient aerodynamics"--Andy Thorby |
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