A sports prototype , sometimes referred to simply as a prototype , is a type of race car that is used in the highest-level categories of sports car racing . This is basically a purpose-built sports racing car, as opposed to the street-legal and production-based ones, and is therefore not intended for consumer purchase or production beyond that required to compete in races.
5-664: The Crawford SSC2K is a purpose-built sports prototype race car, designed, developed and built by American manufacturer Crawford Composites , for the Grand American Road Racing Championship (later Rolex Sports Car Series) , between 2001 and 2002. For the 2001 Grand American Road Racing Championship season Crawford designed and built the Crawford SSC2K. The car was designed by Andy Scriven who joined Crawford in April 1999 after leaving Lola . The GTP sports car
10-558: A great amount of flexibility within set rule parameters. In 1953 - 1984 seasons the World Sportscar Championship titles were awarded to manufacturers of sports prototypes (except of the 1978 - 1981 seasons). In 1985 - 1992 seasons titles were awarded to teams entering sports prototypes (instead of manufacturers of sports prototypes). In historic racing, they are often called "sports racing cars". Sometimes, they are metonymically referred to as "Le Mans cars", as
15-464: The 24 Hours of Le Mans has been closely associated with the category in recent decades and features entries from several of the main championships contested by prototypes. Since the 1960s, various championships have allowed prototypes to compete. However, most championships have had their own set of rules for their prototype classes. Listed here are some of the more commonly known types of prototypes. This sports car racing -related article
20-577: The car's second season, the car scored its first win. At Virginia International Raceway Andy Wallace and Chris Dyson won the 500 km race. Sports prototype Prototype racing cars have competed in sports car racing since before World War II , but became the top echelon of sports cars in the 1960s as they began to replace homologated sports cars. Current ACO regulations allow most sports car series to use two forms of cars: grand tourers (GT cars) , which are strictly based on production street cars, and sports prototypes , which are allowed
25-521: Was powered by a Judd V10 engine. The car was built for Kevin Doran 's racing team, Doran Racing . During the two years the car was contested the car was fitted with various different front end designs. The blunt nose suffered similar issues as experienced by the Reynard 2KQ , the airflow towards the rear end was disrupted. By 2002 Crawford followed Lola B2K/10 's example with regard to the aerodynamic design. In
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