Due to a naming rights dispute between Ford, Lester Ray, and Harrier owner Richard Austin, the LR9C was retired at the end of the 1998 British GT Championship.

Built as a Le Mans Prototype with aerodynamic assistance from MIRA in Warwickshire,[2] the resulting open-top race car was powered by a twin turbocharged 3.8L Porsche flat six engine.

After an initial shakedown at Goodwood Circuit with driver Thomas Erdos,[2] the car appeared on the entry list for the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans under the entrant Gérard MacQuillan.

Entered by Harrier with drivers Ben Collins, Michael Vergers, and Richard Jones, the car qualified twelfth overall and retired on the first lap with alternator issues.

[5] A final race attempt was made at the penultimate round at Magny-Cours, where the car received a grid slot without setting a qualifying time but failed to start due to an engine fire.