Woo hoo! - That's two TVRs at Le Mans!

[Corin Denton]

See here...

www.pistonheads.com/motorsport/news.asp?s=33&storyId=9647

Quality!

[spivvy]

nuff said

[Roy C]

Good news.
LT putting his money where his mouth is.

Just the small matter of getting the ACO to allow the entry again, but, judging by last year's performance, it's looking good.

[rev-erend]

Re : ACO

Last year the ACO made 'TVR' have 2 air restrictors as they had only 'made' (very loose term this one) 25 cars - if they had 'made' 50 car's then 1 restrictor would have really allowed the car to really fly.

TVR as far as I know it - only made 1 road car - all others are delayed.

So they have not even made last year's cars never mind this year's.

Unless the ACO have changed this regulation - then I can see them being pretty strict with any TVR entries

[DustyC]

ACO restrictions; rightly so too.

At the moment it looks like TVR have built a racing car. The GT classes are supposed to be road cars!

[ccharlie6]

i thought TVR only had to make 25 cars as they are classed as a small manufacturer along with teams like spyker, as they make below 2000 cars a year, a large manufacturer has to make 50 cars i thought to meet homologation criteria,

lets just hope that this quality testing NS bought in
finishes soon and then they can make the road cars

[Tripps]

rev-erend said:

TVR as far as I know it - only made 1 road car - all others are delayed.

This point does seem subject to confusion, LT has a T400/400 (?) and the Typhon in the the Parade du Pilote (as punted by the Porsche) was a customer's car, so there are some out there but how many who knows...

I'd heard they'd sold enough not to run the 2nd restrictor when only the 1st car was entered, but when the second got a place both had to be fully restricted.

[ehasler]

Tripps said:

This point does seem subject to confusion, LT has a T400/400 (?) and the Typhon in the the Parade du Pilote (as punted by the Porsche) was a customer's car

The car in the parade was LT's.

[Tripps]

ehasler said:

Tripps said: This point does seem subject to confusion, LT has a T400/400 (?) and the Typhon in the the Parade du Pilote (as punted by the Porsche) was a customer's car The car in the parade was LT's.

Doh - didn't realise that, Ben didn't mention it between the expletives

[rev-erend]

ccharlie6 said:

i thought TVR only had to make 25 cars as they are classed as a small manufacturer along with teams like spyker, as they make below 2000 cars a year, a large manufacturer has to make 50 cars i thought to meet homologation criteria, lets just hope that this quality testing NS bought in finishes soon and then they can make the road cars

I think this allowed only 1 car entry .. when both qualified .. they then were slowed down with a second restrictor.