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Originally Posted by carbsmith
I am actually getting pretty worried about 2017. All the potential growth in the prototype class is coming from teams believing they can finally bring an ACO spec car and compete on completely fair terms, but there's a lot of history to suggest that IMSA will favour manufacturer dollars and the chosen teams over car counts and competition when it comes to keeping people happy.
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You can't say that here! How DARE you not blindly accept that DPi is brilliant!
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It won't kill the series because it's a viable business model, but it would be terrible for the sport.
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It's only viable as long as the manufacturers are interested. Once said interest is lost, there's no guarantee the privateers will come back with the ACO-spec cars. Burn them hard enough and they're GUARANTEED to stay away even once the manufacturer interest dries up.
It's very much in IMSA's best interest to be as fair as possible here. But I have to agree that I don't trust them to do so. I'll believe that they'll fairly balance the DPis with the P2s when I see it.