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Originally Posted by Duff_44
I'll throw this out there and see what sticks...
Would requiring factory teams to sell cars to privateers help the situation or hurt?
Arguably the best era of Group C was the Porsche 956/962 years, where a team could buy one and be somewhat competitive out of the box.
I also wonder how this can work as a business model in LMP1 while it seems to be the norm in GT.
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Back then, there were of course a bunch of places teams could and did run Group C cars - just from the top of my head, you could race a Porsche 962 in WSC, German Supercup, Interserie, All-Japanese-Sportscar Championship and with the approbriate modifications in IMSA GTP - that's quite a market and akin to what we have today for GT3 cars.
Meanwhile, GTE as far as customer cars are concerned is running into the same problems as prototypes: With only a rather finite number of places to run them, customer programs sell less and less cars and commercial viability must be a concern by now.
In short: For the customer sport program to work in a LMP1 environment you'd need more than 2 series to race these cars in.