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http://sportscar365.com/lemans/elms/...per-with-lmp3/

“We forget [CN] totally because the ACO creates a new category."

It's gotta be new record to be forgetting something after you've had one race with them.

“The CN has been around for a lot of years, and to be honest, the safety rules of the car is totally obsolete.

“We don’t want to compare CN and LMP3. We want both categories to compete in the Asian Le Mans Series for the next three seasons, but at the end, we want more and more LMP3s.”

Isn't it reassuring to hear someone high in the hierarchy calling cars competing on track "totally obsolete" in safety department? If they are such hazards, why allow them on track in the first place, and in just one series? Oh right, 6 car grids...

The question in Asia, however, is whether LMP3 and CN can successfully coexist, with both platforms set to be a part of the championship over the next two years.

While the launch of the CN class last weekend at Inje drew only two cars, Asian LMS managing director Mark Thomas said he expects to have between 5-6 of those cars on the grid by the end of the year.

However, the launch of the LMP3 class last weekend in Inje appears to have put a few prospective CN teams on the sidelines to see how ACO’s new class pans out.

When you basically announce the death of a class that's never raced in your series, you shouldn't be surprised when no one shows up!

“Don’t forget that BPR started with only three cars in 1995 and you can see this weekend, the same promoter, Stephane Ratel, will have 60 cars, at the 24 Hours of Spa,” Monte said. “So the main target for next year is to start the category. It doesn’t matter if we have 1 or 2 cars; this category must start. The ACO will do everything to start this category.”

It was 1994. And it wasn't three cars or even models, three makes (Porsche, Venturi, Lotus) of various cars in various classes making a 40 car grid for the first race. So in that respect comparing that to their "It doesn’t matter if we have 1 or 2 cars" is irrelevant.