I really like the ptototypes to be relatively unrestricted. They
always represented the highest top speeds attainable, and
highest g-force cornering. They look to me just as cool as
the neatest jet aircraft. But some street cars (like
Bugatti Veyron, ...) or limited production cars (but not really
street - like Ferrari FXX) are now attaining the speed and
acceleration capability of past LeMans racers of not that
long ago.
Then there was the McLaren F1 which was very similar in
LeMans and street trim. The same for the Porsche GT1 for
LeMans or the street. The Mercedes CLK-GTR for LeMans or
street, ..., 1964 Ford GT-40 in prototype or a few years later
in GT form and the Mark III bersion for the street. There have
been many others.
The amusing thing to me is if American street cars looked
like LeMans prototypes, what would NASCAR do?
Anyway, not sure what this has to do with secret stuff.
I always wondered if we should bring up the Mercedes-Benz T-80
Land Speed Record car of 1939, with a DB603 inverted V12
(based off DB601 Messerschmitt 109 engine) in it. Not really a secret
either though I guess, but the allied soldiers that discovered it in
Germany at the end of WWII must have been pretty surprised
and thought that it was! What the heck is THAT!
