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The privateer petrol cars in 20067-201X never hany real chance yes, but no-one realistically expected them to. The rules did not have strict pretense of equality, like they now (supposedly) do. Besides the main thing was that- after 2008 anyway - they actually were able to win races in ALMS and LMS, while factories concentrated on the big races and later ILMC/WEC... So they did end up having good ROI for much of the season. No-one was forcing you to be 5th or whatever in every race because the regional series were there. But then they banned the doors for that.
Meanwhile every other category started edging closer towards "everyone should be a winner" ideology with proam classes and whatever cheap so they came up with the poor man's privateer trophy for P1 privateers but obviously that was the poorest of compensations.
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