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It weighed under one-thousand kilograms, giving it a better power-to-weight ratio than the legendary McLaren F-One. It was perfect. But... two months after its first test, the racing authorities changed the rules... overnight. They banned carbon fiber monocoques and demanded three-hundred-and-fifty production cars a year. For a small team hand-building cars in an old air force hangar... this was an economic death sentence. The C-C-G-T was banned... before it ever saw a green light.