Latest / The Car Nerd with Jason Hassett
Toyota GT-ONE: The Boldest Con in Racing History
In 1998, Toyota arrived at Le Mans with a car that barely pretended to be a road car.The rules said GT1 cars had to be homologated for the road.They also had to have luggage space.The Toyota GT-One had no boot.So Toyota pointed at the fuel tank.When the tank was empty, they argued, it technically counted as usable space.The officials accepted it.That loophole became one of the most outrageous examples of rulebook engineering in racing history.But the story of the GT-One is much bigger than the suitcase.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now!The true…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.