Flash.(Competition: Auto racing)
AutoWeek, December, 2002
SARD back at Le Mans? The Japanese team that gave Toyota its best result in the Le Mans 24 Hour is aiming to return to the French enduro. SARD, whose second-place in 1994 predated the factory's runner-up spot by five years, is working on plans to go back to the race it last entered in 1997.
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No date has been set for the team's return, but it will not be before 2004. A Toyota-engined prototype built in-house at SARD is the most likely route, but the team hasn't ruled out producing a GTS car. SARD boss Shin Kato said: ``We need to make a strategy, but we have to wait to see the new ...
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