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Originally Posted by chernaudi
Also, I don't think that any of the privateer teams are able or maybe even willing to pay Michelin to make special tires for them. Same issue as the Acura ARX-02. HPD never paid or asked Michelin to make the special wide front tires, mostly because the program got canned at the end of 2009 and with no Audi Sport full time in the ALMS that year, there was no incentive to develop the wide front tires.
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I can't read the article either, but agree things need to change, but perhaps in a different way. What entrants crave is rules stability, so let's dump the poorly thought out hypercar regs, that were a knee-jerk to Audi/Porsche leaving. Instead, stick with what we've got with a sensible cap on hybrid MJ's and make a plug and play hybrid pack available to all. Free up the regs a bit to encourage cars that look different to each other (cue manufacturer resemblance if you like) and off we go....
Give the ruleset time to "mature", keeping costs sensible, get some good racing and the OEMs will come of their own accord, probably.. Rather than doing what ACO are now, which is trying to sell a non-existent product to a non-existent market!