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Originally Posted by HORNDAWG
Prototypes, in TUSC, are not going away. The DP is proof enough of that!
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Once the combination of terrible prototype rules and the GT40 vs. Corvette (and probably vs. Viper) battle kicks their elements in, that will change. Who's gonna care about these POS prototypes against that? More to the point, as the factories in that class are the series biggest spenders, do you think that they won't want that? And for that matter the chassis builders about to be kicked out of prototype racing but who will probably find ways into the GT categories?
If prototypes do survive, it will be in the form of the Class One cars MagVanisher mentioned, more silhouette GT than prototype. And that would be fine with me. These P2 rules, however, are not fine. The response from fans of this sport has pretty much been utter horror from all involved, which is why Atherton's tone about how limiting the builders will allow them to thrive is such utter BS its laughable. This is gonna kill the LMP2 category, and if IMSA has]d any common sense they'd get away from this. But it appears that the braintrust there has every intention of repeating all of the same bloody mistakes that the ALMS made, so here we go into the mess once more, at least until the privateers all go "to heck with this" and either bail on IMSA entirely or switch to GTLM and GTD cars.