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Originally Posted by HORNDAWG
An outright falsehood? Hmm, do you know what 'werks' implies? Corvette and Ganassi are just that! ESM (WEC), Krohn runs in the ELMS full time not IMSA. Shank did rent/lease the car, at least according to him. Others have as well, Keating comes to mind....
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Ben Keating is a ride buyer that wants to put the car in his collection when it's retired, not a team owner. He was forced to buy a ride with a European team when the team he ride buys with in IMSA didn't get an entry with their ACO eligible car. Next year he's probably going to buy a ride in an ACO spec P2 from the same team.
Shank is technically a rental, but it's a rental of an identical IMSA chassis because they can't have the same car in two places at once, if it wasn't for IMSA's scheduling they would have used their own car. That chassis raced in the US two weeks later.
I'll give you that ESM actually rents a car for IMSA because the Nissan engine is uncompetitive under special snowflake rules. No other team would go this far though, they just wouldn't show up.