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This should be a big opportunity for private teams and maybe also car makers that want to do a customer car program. We haven't really had that in reality in the top class since Audi sold R8s to teams like Champion, Goh and the like.
And no, IMO, the Porsche RS Spyder or the Acura ARX-01 don't count. Those were LMP2 cars that were entered in a privateer oriented formula. And that's even allowing for Porsche selling RS Spyders to teams like Dyson and the ARX-01 being a re-bodied and re-engined Courage LC70 and all the HPD teams in the ALMS being recognized as privateer teams by IMSA and the ACO (basically as they did for Champion in the ALMS and LM in the R8 days).
And unless you do count that in the IMSA/ALMS context, there were no true customer cars supported by a factory teams outside of the Audi R8.
IMO, if the ACO had a sensible bone in them, they would return to rules in LMP1 that could make customer car teams a possible reality and give even some of the privateer teams a chance, at least on paper, of winning sprint races.
So much accelerated cost and technology IMO have really hurt the quantity of cars in the class, let alone the quantity of quality cars.
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