Honestly, I think GT Open was a victim of circumstance more than anything else. There were the banner seasons when Manthey came to play, but even that was only a stop-gap while Porsche was working their return to GT factory status.
The idea of running GTE and GT3 on the same track was a selling point, but the GTE pool was always going to shrink, and then GT Open would be a similar situation as they are now, but with everybody asking why GT Open didn't move to GT3 earlier.
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