TVR Is Finally Back In Motorsport, And With An LMP1 Racer
British sports car maker TVR has announced a return to motorsport, partnering with the Rebellion Racing team to take on the premier class of the World Endurance Championship.
Rebellion had moved down to the LMP2 class for the 2017 season, but with a switch to a one-off 14-month ‘Super Season’ calendar spanning 2018 and 2019 this time around, the firm has rejoined the top table with lead sponsor TVR.
The car has been unveiled by tweet, cheekily wearing the number one. An Oreca R-13 chassis with engine details yet to be revealed, its main target will be to challenge the one remaining LMP1 works outfit – Toyota – for outright race wins.
TVR last raced in the Le Mans series between 2003 and 2005 with a T400R racer in the GT2 category. The new move may not require a lot of technical input from TVR yet, but it signals an exciting intent.
The company unveiled its long-awaited new Griffith last year, powered by a Cosworth-tweaked Ford Mustang V8 engine.
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what is with the fidget spinners on the front
That’s the Rebellion team logo. It was a thing even before fidget spinners trend caught on. :P
How about they focus on finally starting producing this bad boi instead? Been ages since the new Griffith was released and not a single production car yet
They’re probably stuck in copyright mess with how similar those front lights are to the old SLS
What? Didn’t knew that production hasn’t started.
*announced. Not released per se.
uhmm dude
they announced production would start in early-mid 2019
get your facts right
TVR themselves said they need to allocate resources and train the workers and stuff before cars could be made, else youre just gonna get Worse than Tesla quality in a 100k sports car. Let them take their time to finish the car.
also i dont see anything wrong with helping a racing team, its good publicity
production cars dont get made 15 mins after the cars are produced, sometimes it takes months or even in rare cases a year or so like the griffith
Nooooo, I was hoping a lack of lmp1 teams might cause fia to re-introduce gt1
And then Toyota would probably cheat by introducing a lmp1 car as a gt1 car, just like in 1998
WHYYYYY
GT1 is amazing, but it can’t ever compare to the LMP1. I mean they are plenty of motorsport you watch for overtaking (hell even GTE class) but LMP1 was here for inovation, for amazing stats, for just being so not based of anything
If they brought their colours back it would be awesome… 😣
And eventually tvr will be back to the same things they did years ago
Is that killing people in cars?
Well the new Griffith comes with tc and abs
(But you can disable them)
Terrible
Vehicle
Reliability
Team Trevor is here!
When Toyota waits ages for another LMP1 team to come along, and then one which will undoubtedly be the crowd favourite does.
I don’t really car companies join motorsports, the thing is that it always makes me happy because I know the sport is gonna last a lot longer.
Livery looks pretty nice ngl
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