sentences:  The road version was fitted with a Renault 5-speed manual transmission.Even with such performance figures, the car wasn't able to match the performance of its competitors at LeMans and would see a dreadful fate.Debuting at Hockenheim, on 13 April (first round of the 1997 FIA GT Championship season), the three factory Elise GT1s and the privateer GBF car took to the grid.