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I wonder exactly the same thing as @SuperSportX, I think this car is worth being in AC, only if it had had the opportunity it deserved in the world of competition, maybe the story would be different for TVR.
Honestly I don't think any amount of opportunity would have saved the Speed 12 or TVR when it came to racing. If you saw in that video, after the Speed 12 left the garage and exited onto the track, a Porsche 911 GT1 went flying by on the main straight. The TVR was even at that point the wrong kind of design for GT1 racing, and given the team's finances it was never going to be racing in the FIA GT or Le Mans. Of course even if it got there, the car would've been thrashed by all the homologation special prototypes of the time.
Lister was actually able to get a Storm with longtail bodywork out onto the FIA GT stage and it did not end well for them.
It's a really interesting car of course, it feels like it's pretty popular while simultaneously barely existing, but it was always destined to be a very niche and small footnote in British GT history.