Martin Short has stated that his Rollcentre Racing needed to return to the LMP1 category of sportscar racing in 2007, although he admitted to being disappointed not to get the most of his Radical LMP2 programme.
The Rollcentre squad switched from its LMP1 Dallara to the Radical for the 2006 season in an effort to taste championship success but was only able to secure a single podium finish during the year at the Nurburgring and suffered notable disappointments at Le Mans and
Donington, the latter where a certain victory disappeared due to starter motor problem in the closing stages.
For 2007, the team returns to the LMP1 scene having purchased a Pescarolo for the new season the car that won all five Le Mans Series races last season and also emerged as the strongest challenger to the Audi R10 in the Le Mans 24 Hours although Short admitted he was sad to see the Radical programme come to an end.
I guess ultimately I'm disappointed with the Radical programme because if we were pleased with it then we would still be doing it, he said in a recent interview with
Crash.net. The car is a fabulous car, in essence it was six months too early although it should have been able to be on time. It didn't arrive on time, it required a huge amount of resources to get it to the first test and the first race and we spent most of the year playing catch up, finding problems, fixing problems and then attempting to race the car and win races. We should have won four out of five races and as for Le Mans, we led the class but to finish that race was a considerable achievement.
