See, there are (major as well) manufacturers wanting to race these higher end up production cars, but with no GT1 or other place to run them
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Originally Posted by Sportscar365
Walliser, who acted as project manager for the Porsche 918, was reluctant to confer a new 911 RSR for the upcoming 2016 GTE regulations. “I would love to race [the 918 Spyder], no question,” he said. “But this not a GTE car. If you look at the price of a street car, it’s material, R&D costs and everything around that… It would definitely not be cheaper than the street car, for sure. This is not possible. It’s way to early to be in a position to make a decision.”
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And since Ratel came up with that
Ultracar thingy due to the requests of some individuals, the desire does exist. And we know McLaren's ambitions.
But just to go back to LMP2 since this is technically their thread, I think if you're looking at the Pilbeam project and it not making much sense (in all likelihood the last new open top LMP car of any kind for the next X years), there is still a long time until it gets totally banned... you get 2015/16 for full eglibility, then 2017 at least under grandfathering rules, and beyond that you can probably still run it at some hillbilly events and probably these South African ones, if they still exists.