Are LMP or DP Cars road legal?

[Subaru WRX]

for sure LMPs and Dps aren't street legal, so don't imagine an Audi R10 in the streets of London or New York

as for the pold GT1/GTP of the 90s, they are true prototype, but they look similar to road going cars, the CLK-GTR such an exemple

the only cars will see from Sports Car Racing on the streetsn are the GT1/GTS cars....Corvette, Aston DB9, Saleen S7...

[Bob Riebe]

What should be asked is can they be made street legal.

Unlike the true prototypes of years past, which had to at least pretend to be lilnked to roadable sports carsl the current cars are actually sports racers-i.e. similar class as the original Can-Am cars ran.
It was a bit of trickery on the part of the sanction to try to gain a link to past cars that the official designation was changed from SR, for sports racing, to-prototype.

I doubt that the current cars, could, like the past ones, be altered enough to meet be made street legal, at least in the US, without looking like the Frankenstein monster.

[Erki]

Well, Radical makes road-legal little protos, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to make bigger ones.

And harv#1, are you sure the GT1/2-s are really road legal?

[trumperZ06]

Some of the ALMS GT1/GT2's... could be converted back to being road worthy... I'm not sure about some of the Porsche's.

By the time you take a street legal sportscar and convert it to being competitive in SCCA T1/T2 etc. classes... you have a dedicated Track Car.

These cars are No Longer... street legal... although they do have Vin numbers.

[wmcot]

Could you imagine trying to parallel park and Audi R10???

Actually, the GT1 Corvettes are not at all close to the street Corvette Z06's. They have had the engine moved further back to allow a large radiator outlet in the hood, they are extremely low to the ground, and all the body panels have quick releases for easy removal among other things.

See attached images:

[wmcot]

Additional Corvette Z06 GT1 photo:

[CCFanatic]

The Vette and most GT1 cars have been refered to Prototypes with a roof.

[harvick#1]

And harv#1, are you sure the GT1/2-s are really road legal?

well yeah, but not hte race cars themselves :

name one racing series that races straight production cars with no roll cage and passenger and rear seating, doesn't have racing suspension or diffuser.

I can't name any series

[Mark in Oshawa]

The Vette is closer to a street car more so than a NASCAR.....

[Bob Riebe]

The Vette is closer to a street car more so than a NASCAR.....

Mar-shawa is correct.

It is the ACOs fault that the cars, even looking less radical, are actually modified more than Greenwoods Vettes were, and even without the diffures and wings, would be illegal by AAGT standards.

They are still built off of a production chassis, but it is the ACO that allows the suspension-body tweeks that make them fast enough in the corners, to cover-up the strangled engines that keep acceleration and top speed compromised.

Bob