A wee private entry from just outside Belfast. Our Garage (Race Dept.) brought a stock tourer from a well-known Coventry manufacturer and went to work adapting it for a 24-hour race.
We stripped out everything not needed to save weight (bumpers, cabin trim etc) and just left the essentials - dashboard, switch panel, door pulls, window winders, mirrors and sunscreen. Then squeezed a roll cage around the driver. And added some stronger locking clamps to the boot and bonnet.
We managed to shoehorn in a big V12 but had to detune it to last the 24 hours. That, plus the beefed-up suspension and larger wheels meant a bit of body panel work was needed. We also shoved a larger fuel tank in the back but couldnât take advantage of the rules allowing for an even bigger one. Oh well, the extra pitstops will give the drivers a rest.
Finally, we painted her up in Irish racing colours and added a snake badge for Saint Patrick. Hopefully, he will watch over us.
I think there is no need to designate the class in the name because there is one clear and absolute difference between the classes: open roof for prototypes and closed roof for GTs.
The entries so far seem to follow that rule, but it was not the case in real life. There were both open top GT cars and closed sports cars raced in 1960. For example, a Ferrari 250 GT California convertible raced in the GT class, while a closed top Porsche, MG, and some Abarths raced in the sports class, among others.
If any entries are unclear, it should be easy for Der_Bayer to figure out based on the tech pool.
Primus Astrona Corsa
The Austro-American manufactor finally built a modern European sedan, small and with a six-cylinder, it aimed at Italian competitors. As a marketing measure, a car is sent to LeMans to prove that the Astrona is a real sport sedan.
No naming convention for sports prototype vs. GT - it is clear to me when I see an open or closed top. Again, I know that in reality there were open and closed top cars in both categories - but for the sake of simplicity the rules in this challenge are more strict.
Not from a rules perspective - feel free to choose whatever is available to you with the quality/tech pool restrictions.
Iâm very happy to see someone else do a japanese take on this. Plus itâs definitely in my top 3 most appealing contenders so far!
The company has no location yet ⌠the âsmall commercial vehicleâ origin story is loosely inspired by Mazda. The lore doesnât go much deeper than that⌠Iâm not sure how old the company should be either. I have some ideas but nothing committed. I guess i should write it all down for future reference.
You seem to have your lore a bit more fleshed-out already?! 
Great to hear that youâre planning to be another small home-grown company! Thatâs pretty much my companyâs story as well, we were founded circa. 1949 in Ichinoseki, Iwate, which is one of Japanâs more rural prefectures.
Yeah, your car is very nice to look at, and practical as well! Good luck with everything.
1960 Mayster Prototyp LM
As part of the extended car and engine development cycle, fledgling Archanan boutique car manufacturer Mayster decided to enter LM in collaboration with Dalluhan gentlemen racer Hamza Ibrahim who offered to finance the endeavour as well.
to hell with it
Cornell Berlinetta 300, a.k.a. the CB300
A mostly off-the-shelf, sporty, Euro-inspired American 2+2. The 5L pushrod V8 roars to just shy of 300 horsepower. The rear seats have been stripped and a wood panel has been bolted over a new, large fuel tank, situated low and in front of the rear axle for optimal weight distribution. Despite this being the inexperienced companyâs first foray into international motorsport, they had their standards held high.
An American entry From Certus Automotive, the Mortuis Caelos. Inspired by both Italian and British racing heritage and powered by a 183 cubic inch American V6.
PS: This was my first time actually messing with 3D fixtures like this, all with a broken wrist on my dominant hand. Itâs rough, but Iâm happy with it.
RGS Racing - Alecrim Doirado
Summary
3000cc Prototype
383hp @ 9600 RPM
705 kg
Top Speed 325 km/h
Lore
The Brazilian RGS Racing, specialized in low weight compact racing cars, is back to La Marche in 1960.
The Alecrim Doirado, golden rosemary, symbolizes prosperity and happines, attracts good luck and money, grows in well drained soil and under the sun. This car is a complex engineered sports prototype car designed for high speed endurance track. The engineers of RGS Racing are aiming for top speed records and fastest lap in the 24h La Marche.
PS
Aerodynamics at it bestsâŚ
With all that power, low weight and without a well designed wing to keep itâs front on the ground, this car would problably crasch without a well trained driver. Keeping full throttle at high speed will always make a wheelie, but with care it will pass 320km/h in Beamng.
For those who saw the first post of this car, I changed a lot of things to achieve a better lap time, same engine but with another position and setup. Now I really like the aesthtics! Unfortunalety new users canât send more than one pictureâŚ
Little note: this car surpass the real 1960 Le Mans results in laps and fastest lap, 
How did you get such low profile tires with cross-plys? My car looks like itâs an off-roader lol.
that looks so much cleaner than my entry omg
as far as iâm aware, using advanced trim settings isnât off the table
if it is then the host is kind of a dick because i donât see the rule anywhere, and itâs impossible to make tires that look similar to the ones actually used at le mans otherwise (havenât tried quality spam but i already entered so i donât care enough to check anymore)
Thatâs true. I didnât think about advanced trim, and youâre right that they werenât mentioned in the rules.
As far as I know, advanced trim only make difference if you export to beamng. So for automation calculations itâs only cosmedic. So this shouldnât be a problem for competing.
ASARACING DIVISION
ASAKURA Seishin (Spirit) S1600 âPignoseâ
Summary:
1595CC Flat 6 All Aluminium 2V DOHC Grand Tourer
135HP at 8500RPM
823KGs
Top Speed: 222 KPH
Fibreglass Body, Steel Monocoque Chassis
All for a price of 26,300 AMU!
Lore:
ASAKURA Heavy Industries had recently started making their first non-Kei car, the ASAKURA Sakai, and decided that if they wanted the car to sell at all, they needed to get people to be aware of their small brand. Being based out of Ichinoseki, Iwate, one of the most backwards prefectures in Japan, didnât help with marketing and finances.
To sort this mess out, they decided to create the ASAKURA Seishin S1600 âPignoseâ, a fibreglass grand tourer based on the chassis of their original Sakai. It would be powered by a 1595CC Flat 6 for the sake of maintaining reasonable fuel economy, and would be designed to reach at least 165KPH on flat ground. ASAKURA had never designed a sports car of any kind before, so they had trouble, but eventually released it to the public on the 30th of January 1960 to decent fanfare.
Seishin means Spirit in Japanese, and thatâs what the drivers of these cars had to have, given their often slow acceleration and considerably slushy turning for a car of its size.
It would enter the All Japan Touring Car Championship in 1960, and come home with a healthy second place finish, being beaten out by a Prince Skyline. Fearing that this would damage the companyâs reputation, they made a gamble and decided to enter the car with minimal modifications into the 1960 Le Marche, and Shinichiro Asakura is awaiting the resultsâŚ
Notes:
I didnât actually realise this when I was making this car at first, but this thing is technically mid-engine even though I set it to be front engine, as the engine is a solid metre behind the front wheels, pretty much pressing up against the front cabin bulkhead.
This thing is pretty easy to drive, but god does it accelerate slowly - that 135HP engine isnât exactly too potent. Itâs kinda sluggish on turns, but somehow it doesnât really oversteer or understeer. The brakes donât really lock unless you really try, so hopefully that should help.
I havenât exactly upgraded much from the stock engine, but I hope that it helpsâŚ
Iâll send the car file sometime soon, just a little busyâŚ
Other Pictures:
ASAKURA Seishin S1600 in production specification:
You should totally post a pic, looks are less important than performance anyways.
Iâm still doing the 3d fixtures itâs tough work ;~;
good luck man, iâve never been able to do 3D fixtures but I know you canâŚ