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The TS050 is an absurdly good and rather new factory car because of the ridiculous lengths the competition went to in 2014-2017, and the privateers are not even particularly good for privateers, there's not much that can be done about it besides reset things with new rules. Too bad they aren't even going to bother with that and just BoP trashcan it.
By comparison the R8 was a kind of mediocre old factory car by the tail end of its lifespan and there was some very good privateer cars. Look at the difference in effort in adapting a standard Courage/ORECA between the Pescarolo C60 and the Rebellion R13, or even the other way between how half assed the R8's later update kits for regulation changes were compared to what Toyota did when hybrid aero was cut back.
I've said before I don't even think the R8 chassis was that good to start with, it was just the only car around designed for the 2000 ACO regulations and had the only purpose built LMP engine on the grid. When you got something like a Lola AER or Reynard Zytek that had been completely designed for those rules too they were also very good. The TS040 started with a chassis good enough to offset its carry over engine in 2014 and the TS050 today is miles upon miles better than that.
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