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Originally Posted by FormulaFox
GT4 is showroom stock. The cars are barely modified from their roadgoing counterparts.
The Conti series has the ST class that can run the high-production-volume cars if it comes down to it. GS needs to adapt or die, and GT4 is a perfect fit.
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'Showroom stock' implies that there is a showroom...
IMSA screwed up big time by allowing the Z28s, but if they can turn back the clock on that and show teams that something like this won't happen again, they should be able to get out of this rut.
Adding SINs, Ginettas and KTMs would bring nothing but a - probably modest - increase in numbers to the series, but they would contribute absolutely nothing in the way of sponsorship and activation and might even drive away manufacturers that are actually interested in doing that.
But okay, let's say they allow GT4 but not the kitcar side of it, what does that leave us with? The Astons and Porsches are already GS legal and have been raced in the series. Other than that there are the ageing Maseratis and M3s, the Camaros from two generations ago and the M4s developed by a small Dutch privateer team, so good luck with getting parts support for those things in the US. Oh, I forgot the $300,000 McLaren...