Remember the Panoz GTR-1, America’s 15-foot middle finger to mid-engined sports prototypes? Here it is, parked at Lime Rock Park while Krewson drove the Ariel Atom 3 last weekend.
Front-engined cars have been absent from the highest echelons of racing since the early 1960s. But in 1997, Don Panoz took a car to Le Mans ready to rattle the mid-engined establishment. It was called the Batmobile.