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1 million Euros or Dollars is ONLY the price of ONE GT1 car. Used C5Rs and C6.r ( if Pratt & Miller and GM will allowed them to be sold ) sell for between $500,000 for a used C5-R and $750,000 for a used C6.R.
Mich tire contracts run a Million dollars a year for a team of two cars. Winning Engine development, mantaince pacakges runs close to a Million dollars a year.
Teams need two cars plus the budget to race for several years. Not one year at a time.
Lemans the race itself is not inexpensive either. An American GT2 team Krohn / White Lighting partned team for Lemans had a budget of $960,000 just for the 24 hour Le Mans race. This did not include the drivers saleries. Krohn / White Lighting team did not finish the race.
Racing on the cheap is called Grand AM.
the American Speed World Challange GT team can be run for about one million dollars per year plus $300,000 for the car.
So . . .
If you want to play with the Big Boys, you have to pay . . . .
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