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Oldsmobile beating Ferrari. Spice also made available a kit to convert existing Group C and IMSA chassis to the new WSC regulations and some teams took up this option, with some opting to carry out their own conversion and development work, without factory assistance. Some of these heavily modified designs would still be racing competitively until 1999.
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GC85, Gordon Spice decided to build his own chassis, not only for the C2 class in the World
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engines in SE90-based chassis, winning the Camel lights for Honda in 1991, 1992 and 1993. In 1990 Gordon Spice and Ray Bellm sold their interests in Spice
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the SE90s, winning various championships. Spice would also end its relationship with
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