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Let's all remember Le Mans 1999.
How cool was that for a race? And it was all factory involvement.
I have to agree with previous posts regarding this tit for tat nature of motorsports. Privateers can't survive without the factories bringing crowds, among other things, and the factories can't survive without the privateers, bringing numbers to the field.
And then of course, you have Nascar and Grand Am. They don't need the same strategy because the cars are built to be the same, essentially make the drivers the stars.
In series like DTM, or FIA GT, the cars are penalised for how well they are doing, again artificially creating close races, but at least the cars start from different perspectives to reach the same goal, winning races.
That's the magic of sportscar racing, you have H6s, V8s, V10s, V12s, front/rear/mid engined cars. All of them interpreting rules and going for a win.
In Nascar or Aussie V8, the cars are built to one spec, creating a one dimensional racing that in my mind will never rival what could and has happened at LM in the past (1999). Audi, Toyota, BMW, Merc, Nissan. All showed up with REALLY different cars. That's 2 dimensional racing: the cars AND the drivers.
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