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Originally Posted by p261brm
I think the problem for the 2litre sports cars lays with the FIA themselves, in period The World Championship for makes and a seperate 2litre Championship, with a seperate set of rules, particualy for 1972, cockpits open. full width windscreens, headlights etc. but not for the 2litre Martini. this presents just as did in period a problem in that most of these cars were run by private teams, and are expensive to run, more rules will force owners away, as it did in period.
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The problem does not come from FIA, the problem comes from the paddock here and scrutineers it would appear. A car if accepted with an airbox on its HTP will be allowed to use it as the specification approved is valid as a whole.
But you cannot cherry pick bits and bobs from one specification and mix it with another, it's all about running a car today as one that ran in period. Additionally, the European Championship did not run to different rules than the Appendix J in period, WSC or 2L European Championship were the same.
Assymmetric and symmetric cockpit/rops were a ruling update from 1972 onwards and applicable across the whole scope of sport prototype racing and classified as Group 5 from then. Already announced in 1971 in Appendix J in fact. Delays were given it is known to certain manufacturers to update their design and as an example with the Lola T290.