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On November 28, 1998 [[Porsche]] announced that they would not continue their development of the open-cockpit [[Porsche WSC-95|LMP1-98]] for the [[1999 24 Hours of Le Mans]]. The [[Porsche 911 GT1]], which had won Le Mans in 1998 but struggled in the [[FIA GT Championship]], would not be continued either, but this was due to its GT1 class being dissolved through [[FIA]] and [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest|ACO]] rule changes. Porsche would instead concentrate on development of the [[Porsche 911 GT3|911 GT3]]-R, a production-based car for various [[Grand Touring]] series. However, Porsche also announced that they would return to the top Le Mans Prototype class in 2000 with an all new car.
Design work on this new car had begun just prior to Porsche's announcement in 1998. An open-cockpit prototype, it originally planned to use a variation of Porsche's traditional [[turbocharging|turbocharged]] [[Flat-6]] engine. By early 1999, the Flat-6 would be abandoned due to difficulties in using the aged design. Porsche would instead turn to the use of a naturally
The first chassis began construction in the summer of 1999, with [[Lola Cars|Lola Cars International]] building the [[carbon fiber]] tub. The new V10 would require slight modifications to the design work, including a large rear hump to accommodate the engine and its airbox integrated into a new single rollbar behind the cockpit (a design element Audi was also developing for their [[Audi R8 (race car)|Audi R8]] at the time). Suspension and transmission elements were borrowed and upgraded from the [[Porsche WSC-95|LMP1-98]].
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