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22 Dec 2006, 12:20 (Ref:1797613) | #1 | |
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Morgan Aero 8's for FIA GT3 in 2007
DSC have just broken the news that three Morgan Aero 8's will be campaigned in the 2007 FIA GT3 Championship by French team Mirabeau Competition, regulars in FFSA GT. Mirabeau Competition will prepare and enter the cars, this is not a factory programme.
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22 Dec 2006, 12:37 (Ref:1797632) | #2 | ||
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Have the cars been homologated by the FIA for GT3 yet? Also Have Morgan built 200 Aero 8's yet or will they become the same fate as Mosler?
The manufacturer I would think needs to be involved with the Homologation of the car, so Morgan will be fairly well involved initially. |
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According to the DSC article, the GT Commission have recently given the car the 'required approvals'.
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Assuming Morgan have built 200+ Aero 8's (and I have no idea if they have or not)... how can *anybody* other than the manufacture produce a GT3 car? I might be missing the point here, but as I understand it, only the manufacture can homologate the cars?? if this is not the case, what's to stop me (as a non-manufacturer) gaining an entry for just about *any* road based car? Perhaps I could ask to homologate a Honda-engined Exige for example (you can imaging how much lotus would like/support that idea)? Having looked hard at GT3, I really am struggling to understand it, there does not seem to be anything in the way of proper reg's, and the acceptance seems more a case of politics than defined rules. PS. this is not to say I would not like to see Morgans racing in GT |
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As I understand any team wishing to entre a car into GT3 must have explicit permission to do so from the manufacturer.
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GT3 seems to be very much whatever you want at the moment.... |
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For example the GT3 Corvette is developed by "non-manufacturer" Callaway and the Jaguar by Apex. Last edited by FIRE; 23 Dec 2006 at 13:54. |
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Nice to have another manufacturer in the GT3 class, particularly a British one. The Morgan's have run fairly competitvely in various classes in recent years perhaps this can do also.
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If anything though the more interesting point of this story is the potential Le mans angle
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I suspect there would be considerable support for such a programme! |
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Unfortunately my subscription to DSC ran out a couple of weeks ago, ill have to renew it in early January, no money at the moment. So, Morgan for GT2 at Le Mans again? Sounds good to me.
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The Aero 8 uses a modern BMW V8
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good the morgans loook and sound so great- and front engined racers are coooler than rear and middies anyday
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The Morgan uses a BMW engine, I'd have though someone would have posted that by now
Anyway the point of the post; a link: http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/sales/aero8gtn.html |
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According to that fount of knowledge on all things motor sport, and especially GT racing, I speak of the Autosport of course, Mr Laffite and Mr Jabouille are behind the Morgan entry. Why? I ask myself
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That's sort of correct - as I understand it it's actually the other way around - One of Lafitte's long time backers is major Morgan fan Eric Studza - The Barings boss who commissioned the original Morgan Aeromax
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Being old I am all for nostalgia but if I were our ex F1 heroes I would want serious wedge to put my name to that in modern racing, correct me if I am wrong but it will be nowhere surely?
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So that's the same engine that's in the Ascari is it?
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No it iS not the same engine as the Ascari, that runs the previous series M5 power plant (V8 not V10) blue printed by them to get 500bhp. The Aero 8 engine is a stock BMW engine (BMW do not allow anyone to use M power plants apart from Wiessman who run the M3 engine). BMW engineers were part and parcel part of the development programme at Morgan which is why the car can be sold world wide (getting through noise and emmission regs). As a brief aside I heard that Damax (The Ascari Team) had been to Malvern looking at racing in GT3. Perhaps they are reading between the lines as Mosler have not been admitted into GT3.
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