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Old 19 Sep 2006, 20:26 (Ref:1714099)   #98
Bob Riebe
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Originally Posted by JAG
Racing teams need to race within their means.
Over here many teams, at least into the nineties, often flushed tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain, because they simply wanted to race. There was no "business" outline, other than quiting when flat broke, governing them.
And the racing flourished for love of sport.


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Why splash out on your own design, then struggle to run a couple of cars, when you can buy off the shelf.
They probably do it, at least partially, for the reason named above, not because a sanction decided they know how to do it better.

As of now the ACO is winning and sports car racing is growing sideways.
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