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Originally Posted by Speed-King
You leave out this, though:
[Differences in performance weren’t] such a big factor back then. They didn’t police it so stringently. They had to when the series started to die a few years later because they needed to keep customers coming back with a chance of competing.”
Given the choice between a BoP and a free for all class, privateers will almost always go the BoP route.
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Yes, because it was so obvious...?
Organizers giving up to demands is nothing new, and if given the choice most competitors will obviously choose BoP over free-for-all, because it guarantees success, instead of having to actually work (or switch chassis) if your package isn't the greatest. But that's the problem which I've been touting for years now - and it goes beyond BoP to things such as pro-am and so on - that the customers now expect these things as the norm. It's a nanny state.
By the way, ELMS GTE having almost always been just a two horse Porsche vs Ferrari platter, the over reliance on that (and success ballast now on top) is almost funny. Especially while in the upper spec classes the same two or three horse race lets Oreca to be the conqueror year after year