Something has to be done to at least give private teams at least an outside theoretical chance, even if it means having separate rules, like going back to an air restrictor formula/no fuel flow limit, which is probably the simplest change to administer to save private teams money while giving them a boost.
If there were 4-5 factory or semi-factory privateer teams in LMP1 right now, I'd say screw the non-factory aligned private teams who run off the shelf chassis and engines. It was that way in LMP900. But this isn't like it was back in LMP900 or early LMP1. You don't have the quantity of entries, period, to pull such a stunt anymore if the ACO are serious about keeping the class going longer term.
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