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Originally Posted by helgi
Funny to read about "folks IN racing who want wide open regs are those with unlimited pockets". I clearly remember normal LMP2 with University teams and garagists who had built their own cars. Where are they now? Oh, they should have way too large pockets and now build their own Mars stations.
Looks like I represent a marginal minority of those fans who prefer autosport and rather then driver-o-sport. As monsieur Poirot said: "Round and around in the circles. Never will I understand the passion for such a pointless pastime". McRae and Loeb had clearly shown that a rally driver is a superior sportsman than just a "pilot". The whole interest in circling around is a test for the machine at the highest level. If there's no comparision in tech then it's waist of time and wallets.
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No, you're in the HUGE minority of those who pretend things are the way they think they are NOT what reality shows. Dome, went out of business WELLLLLL before the new rules and were barely holding on with volunteers and students and well off the pace. Lola was abosulte GARBAGE and every team who had one and the AMR-Lola did nothing but whinge on about having to rebuild the car and then yup, bankrupt. Ginetta had a car but well off the pace, didn't have the backing and have pulled back from that to make a product they know well. BR was fully funded by a now non-existent cash supply. Pescarolo ran out of money themselves before they could even attempt a car. Gibson/Zytec saw the writing with their car and adjusted, now have a great business in things they do well
OK, so where exactly were these cars you think well out in force on the track again? Yeah, when cars could be built in a shed, did 5 min laps and any wreck caused utter failure of the tube frame there were cars a plenty. But guess what, we matured to actual professional TEAM motorsport and made the drivers and teams FAR FAR FAR more professional as a SPORT. You've just decided to randomly decide that without garbage field filler efforts that made in less than half the race was "more sporting." No, that's just SCCA endurance racing, we have that still and you can watch cars built in a shed all over the planet. I on the other hand would like to watch those who are professional in every sense race the fastest car that can be viable instead of a car that burns all their money in a week and they poof disappear. Yes, some of those teams are fondly remembered but most for their failure and disappearance than the professional quality of their approach