Marcos LM600 confirmed for Project Motor Racing

Another throwback to the glory years of international GT racing is coming to Project Motor Racing, and it’s one for motorsport aficionados.

Although previously teased via real-world promotional footage, the Marcos LM600 has now been seen running in-game for the first time (see below), and its exhaust note sounds suitably menacing.

Conceived in 1995 as a GT2 car, originally raced in the British GT Championship (winning its class) before embarking upon a BPR Global GT Series campaign and the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. A GT1-spec version of the car made a one-race cameo in British GT but was never raced in anger again.

The brainchild of English firm Marcos Engineering, which made classic road cars like the Mantis, Mini Marcos and the 1800GT, the LM600 is based on the Mantara road car and features a naturally aspirated V8 engine. 

Although it looks unwieldy, the LM600 packed a punch against its better-funded opponents, and it sounded glorious thanks to its Chevrolet-derived motor (which also contributes to vision-obscuring hump on the bonnet).

Probably best-known as Dutch racer Cor Euser’s weapon of choice over many seasons, the LM600 was the successor to the LM400 and LM600 models, and claimed class wins in the BPR series at Jarama and Silverstone, with Euser eventually taking on full control of the company’s race programme.

An Evo version of the car was developed from the company’s Netherlands base, which then secured the 2000 British GT Championship in the hands of the experienced Calum Lockie. 

Project Motor Racing is set to release this autumn on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S and will include a whole host of classic GT and sportscars, from early noughties racers like the Mosler MT900R and Lister Storm, to modern  GT3s like the Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo 2 and Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2.

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Featured image courtesy of Machines with a Mission