Visions of LE MANS

We drive Saleen’s S7R race car—and get a taste of its 200-mph street car to come

by Chris Walton

ONCE IN A WHILE, A RACE TEAM ALLOWS A magazine journalist to get behind the wheel of its thoroughbred machine. Typically, damage control dictates this happen at the end of the racing season, or with last year’s car. This time, they called us in mid-season. My numbers came in, so it was off to the Streets of Willow Springs to drive Park Place Racing’s Saleen S7R. Saleen, the low-volume manufacturer named for proprietor Steve and known for its high-performance Mustangs, invited us to drive its new race car derived from the streetable, soon-to-be-released S7 supercar—and it ain’t no Mustang. The Number 5 you see here is currently holding second place (as of this writing) in the GTS class of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series, in the hands of Chris…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2001

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