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Originally Posted by Fogelhund
It isn't just the full adoption of the the FIA GT3 regulations
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That's actually not how I read it.
Grand Am says it's “in advanced discussions with Audi surrounding the possible introduction of the R8 in Rolex GT.”
To me that says that Rolex GT as it is right now will still be the basis of the class, but perhaps with some modifications to make sure that the Audis and other GT3-cars don't run away from the rest of the cars in the class. Especially for the tubeframe cars, it shouldn't be all that hard to gain some speed through body "modifications not previously allowed in GT.”
At least in the short term, Grand Am would gain nothing by throwing the GM and especially the Mazda teams under the bus by a switch to full on GT3-regs.
But then there's of course still the DTM-connection - and if the DTM-cars don't replace the DPs, perhaps they can slot in in between DP2.0 and GT. With the RX-8 going out of production sooner or later, Mazda could then race their Mazdaspeed 6 in the (at this point hypothetical) DTM-class.