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Originally Posted by Jonerz
As I understood it way back in the day, the P2 and P1 cars were initially that close, and when the ACO saw that they pegged back the LMP2 cars, but IMSA didn't follow along, because Porsche wanted to be competing for overall wins the whole time. Porsche had seen the overall-winning-potential of the LMP2 package as initially written and jumped into the ALMS for that reason, and IMSA wasn't going to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Chris
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And it annoyed Audi a good deal too, from rumors I either heard or invented. They were paying the big bucks and getting beaten by a "second-class" car.