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Originally Posted by MaskedRacer
Wow what Mike is saying here is significant. A question for you Mike. Does the high costs correlate with the number of hours of track time that IMSA runs per season?
If so, I think the only thing that can be done for 2018 is probably dropping Laguna. But beyond this year could something really drastic be needed such as dropping GTD from Road Atlanta!? Just to get the number of hours of race time reduced.
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The high costs aren't being caused by any specific single issue, IMO. Hours of run time over the season is definitely one of the big contributors, but it's other things as well like the increased upfront and running costs for the new generation of cars, the length of the weekends (how long staff/equipment is at the track) and driver ratings.
Driver ratings is a 3rd-rail discussion and we all know it sucks, but in a Pro-Am class with Pro Silvers, it simply reduces the potential for sharing the costs if you want to be competitive. You can only have a single gentleman driver in the car for the NAEC rounds if you want to be competitive against lineups with 2-4 professionals -- or in the case of some pseudo-factory efforts, no gentleman drivers.
-mike