Panoz Esperante GTR-1 Road Car 1997

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Have you lost your mind SC?! It's preposterously ugly, which gives it a certain charm, but beautiful is not a word I would use.

That's why it's a piece of art, not an object of beauty.
 
Nice find. I didn't even know there was a road version!

Well, there has to be a road version in order to race it. Apart from F1, F3 and the like (including most LMP cars), they are the rules of racing (as far as I know...)!
 
I believe the GTR-1 road car is built to order, rather than produced in a predetermined number like most homologation cars...
 
Only 2 road-going versions of this car exist, purely for homologation purposes.
 
I believe the GTR-1 road car is built to order, rather than produced in a predetermined number like most homologation cars...

Only two road-legal GTR-1s were built to meet homologation requirements set forth by the ruling bodies which the racing cars ran under.
 
Just so you know, that pic is my modified AUTOart model of the car...
The original gold car was the crash test homoligation car, while the chameleon purple car currently resides at Panoz's headquarters in Georgia. Apparently Panoz will build GTR-1 road cars at request, though no word if anyone has...
 
I'd prefer the race version of this car to be 'premiumized' rather than this. Still deserves my like tho.
 
It's very similar to the Cizeta in respect that you can have one if you want one but nobody does so the original series of production will remain the same.
 
Well, there has to be a road version in order to race it. Apart from F1, F3 and the like (including most LMP cars), they are the rules of racing (as far as I know...)!

No...back then GT1 was the highest class like P1 today, and part of the way to make the cars actually road relevant were to have the manufactures entering to produce street legal version of a certain number that had to meet certain requirements to be called a legal road car and one that wasn't just a thinly veiled race car acting as a road car. Which is why the GT-One nearly didn't make it.

Today that's not the case. It easier to take a super car and convert it over into a racer, but the reasons why this was built and why a Porsche 911 or Corvette ZR1 compared to their GTE/GT3 counter parts are far different.
 
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