[I do not understand your last comment. The Company is very clear on the depth of their partnership with Oak Racing.
“Whilst Morgan sports cars enjoy a great history we have also gained a reputation for pioneering new technology, and I believe LMP2 represents a superb proving ground in which to develop innovative new methods”.
“Our partnership presents the opportunity for the next generation of Morgans to embrace new technological advances, particularly with the implementation of materials such as carbon fibre and top level aerodynamics, elements that are key to LMP2 cars. What’s more, we now have the chance to develop efficient, high-end performance machinery.”
Dan
I saw the Factory blurb as well and if it is an accurate reflection of the input which MMC are having into the Oak racing programme, then what they say is fair and reasonable. The slight problem I do have is that if one looks at any other source of comment - including Oak themselves- MMC's contribution seems much much less than stated in the Factory's comments. If this IS the case ( and if it's not then I'm happy to be corrected) then what we are looking here is surely more in the realms of how Rob described it " an Oak Racing car with Morgan stickers" than any real collaborative venture which MMC can use as a testing and proving ground for their technoloigical material
I'm also prepared to accept that MMC won't be the first ones to go down this road, For example anyone who remembers some of the aspects of the Lola- Ford 'collaboration' is probably having a slight sense of deja vu just now and perhaps to an extent the same could be said of the modern day 'Bentley' entry.
Cheers
G
