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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
Everybody is evaluating everything. That's just the usual S365 nonsense. The quotes actually say "No, not now. Maybe in a few years, we'll see." which is the same thing every car manufacturer says about every series, and the headline from that is basically Audi are returning.
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Exactly. Nearly every manufacturer with a GT3 car(and even a couple that don't) has "evaluated" DPi at least a little bit. HEck, a pretty big deal was amde out of Bentley and Alfa Romeo "evaluating" DPi, but those evaluations have ultimately gone nowhere.
As far as I'm concerned, a manufacturer "evaluating" something is not particularly newsworthy. Audi has probably even "evaluated" NASCAR at some point in their motorsport program's history - doesn't mean they ever seriously were considering entering.
When they announce(or a reliable someone leaks) that they're ACTIVELY working on a program, THAT'S intriguing information.
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Originally Posted by Matt
DPi is a silly cheap way to have a manufacture representation for marketing purposes.
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You've hit the nail on the head for why so many manufacturers have undertaken an evaluation of DPi. But low cost isn't automatically attractive - if it was, we'd have probably have the GT3 manufacturers backing DPi programs.
On the flip side, this same cheapness is what makes ESM-style programs possible. I think going forward, most new DPi programs will effectively be glorified privateer entries.