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Originally Posted by bludvl_x19
Might as well set a minimum lap time as well, so that you can't buy your way to the front with a better car or driver.
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BOP and driver ratings take care of that.
These are the exact same rules SRO uses in Blancpain. They were also in force for the Laguna Seca 8 Hours.
I get the minimum pits stops. It stops teams investing hundreds of thousands of [currency] in fancy gear to speed up refueling. This is in keeping with SRO's strong and correct policy of managing costs for the customers on whom their business depends. VLN/N24 does the same thing for the same reason.
It's the stint length stuff which sucks because stint and pitstop strategy is such a core part of endurance racing. They do it (and the FCY->SC idiocy) simply to ensure that the field stays bunched and they can spend the next year after the race posting clips of amazing last-10 min battles and boasting about how exciting the racing is, even it's almost entirely fake.