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Old 09-13-2009, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by MatsNorway
before a silly person tries to make their own rules here is the FIA way to determinate roughly what a GT car should look like.

"A Grand Touring car is an open or closed automobile which has no more than one door on each side, has no more than four seats, is fully legal for road use and has been modified to ensure suitablity for speed races on circuits or closed courses. A GT car is a road car adapted for racing and not a racing car adapted for the road..........the car must be genuinely designed and built for use on the road. To ensure the validity of the rule the FIA further insists that all cars taking part in the GT Championship must be properly homologated for road use.."
Sounds good to me. Nothing silly about having one chassis that can fit so many different specifications and a many are trying to call them all the same thing. What's the rule for the number or chassis that must be produced? Once upon a time it was 500 roadworthy units.
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