LMP2 Manufacturers and Engine Suppliers

[BrentJackson]

Well look at this. IMSA is gonna only be the four chosen one chassis after all.

http://www.racer.com/imsa/item/11475...p2-regulations

“I don’t see that happening, candidly,” he stated. “It’s not a random choice that we have decided, with complete agreement by the ACO and the FIA, to limit the constructors to four. And we have to be careful of definitions here. Constructors are who we’re looking at to actually build the prototype racecars. Manufacturers are those mainstream brands that we’re all familiar with that would put the drivetrain and potential bodywork on the cars.
“So back to the constructor discussion, we’re going to support the decision to limit those to four, with one – at least – one of those four being North American-based.”

Nice work, IMSA. You've just utterly and completely screwed yourselves. When your prototype field is in tatters, and it will be 2018 or so, you will only have yourselves to blame for supporting this ridiculous, idiotic farce that these new P2 rules are. You are about to screw two American chassis manufacturers out of a considerable amount of work (or run them completely out of the sport) so that Oreca and Onroak can make more money. You are about to make marketing your sport to the rest of America effectively impossible and alienate a very large number of your existing fans, which will make your already hideous cost/benefit ratio that much worse. And all for what? To keep a connection to Le Mans that maybe a half dozen cars in your field will take advantage of, and where the ACO is gonna neuter your entrants into being also-rans?

Memo to World Challenge: Start an endurance series. Like, now. Because IMSA is about to blow themselves up because they haven't got enough sense to tell the ACO where to shove it.