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Originally Posted by WolfsburgRS
The John Potters and Christina Nielsens of the world have the money to drive the fancy exciting cars, and stepping it back to GT4 may lose their interest.
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Thing is, there aren't terribly many Potters and Nielsens around and IIRC Christina actually lost the Scuderia Corsa drive due to not being able to match the team's increased financial demands, so she might not be as well-heeled as one might think. And Potter didn't find it to be beneath him to run a Porsche Cup Car in Rolex GT, so GT4 wouldn't be a terrible step down.
At the same time, you'd allow teams and drivers back into the series that have been priced out since the merger (e.g. former Grand-Am stalwarts like Foster and Putnam that rather run in Creventic these days).
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but it's probably a little soon for that switch to be attractive.
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Agreed - though I think there needs to be a road-map, which needs to be communicated ahead of time. If we posit that teams normally buy their cars for a three year period, a switch in 2021 would need to be communicated during the course of the coming season to give the teams that have bought new GT3s for 2018 enough time to get their money's worth.