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A DPI or privateer LMP1 is no more complex than an Audi R18 from 2011-13 (if it had a gasoline engine) or the old '03 Bentley. If they ran the old R8's engine in the R18, it wouldn't be that much more expensive or complex than the R8 was. Only difference is things that are now common place (a roof, torsion bar suspension--no real advantage over coilovers other than packaging--integrated bodywork and monocoque).
Best thing going forward is no more ERS incentive that partly drove the whole rush for powerful hybrids and smaller but more powerful engines.
These rules and possibly the 2020 rules were just poorly executed and the ACO lacked the more moderate approach that they should've done from the start. IMO, just a mea culpa that they executed things badly.
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