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Saleen is already where the Corvettes are after 1 year of development. They don't have to work on the car that much cause they desinged it soley to race. But it would never fly if it was made to profit from commo street sales. However, GM and Chrysler are forced to take production cars, designed to sell of the street, and make them into good racecars. That takes a LOT of money and time. And when you allow someone basically to desing a racecar, and then maybe sell 30 to call it production based, the manufacturers have no incentive and tons of disincentives not to run thier much more expensive "stock" bodied cars. Because they'll be beat by a competitor with a fraction of a budget who isn't a competitor in the showroom. Meaning all you're left with are these exotic purpose-designed cars. But that will never fly, because you lose the manufacturer rivalry and interest will decline(especially if no other private purpose builders[ie like mclaren] enter the series] with no production factory competition, purpose built car makers will get tired of beating themselves and pullout, leaving no facotry backed efforts on any front, destroying a class which doesn't really have a good car count to start with.
You know what would've been cool. If Saleen could've raced some sort of Saleen mustang. I don't know how feasible ity would've been, the Mustang isn't really in the same class as the Vetter/Viper, more of a Camor/Firebird competitor, but isn't there a Saleen Mustang over in Grand-Am GTO, which is kinda the equivalent(a stretch I know) of GTS? That would've been perfect. It keeps it on the manufacturer level, but Saleen still gets to sell thier cars.
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