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Originally Posted by Maelochs
The podium ceremony at Sebring that year (2011 I believe) lasted almost three hours. It was almost a “here’s your participation trophy” situation.
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2012.
And that was entirely down to ACO-FIA-IMSA all together stupidly not agreeing to combine the classes as they had done in the three previous ILMC outings. If they had respected the old system, the class count would've been split by half and the race would've been million times more sensible looking (and certain mr Hindhaugh wouldn't have branded it the worst race ever or whatever he has later said). The brand new separate artificial sub classification for ACO LMP1 Privateers of course didn't help either, adding yet another ceremony, nor IMSA's stubborness to keep spec filler classes of LMPC and GTC on the grid at full force when the paddock capacity limit was nearing. These are the real reasons why Sebring got canned from WEC the following year, the greedy needs of all three organizations not meeting middle ground. I blame FIA most on this instance, as Sebring was not their "standards", and they didn't want "guest classes" to interfere with their brand new series.