It started in the late 1990s with Danny Panoz, who wanted to start a company and build sports cars - now called Panoz Auto LLC. His father, Dr Don Panoz, decided that in order to promote his son’s race car company, it would be a good idea to start racing cars first. So that’s when the first Panoz car was born - the GTR-1. Don Panoz didn’t really have a background in the car industry, but he visited a few races and caught the bug pretty quickly. When he was told that the ultimate race to enter was the 24 hours of Le Mans, it immediately became his goal. But just as quickly he was told that a small sports car manufacturer could not enter the 24 hours of Le Mans just like that. But when you told Don Panoz that something can’t be done…