I'm with JAG on that. Up until '02, you only needed one road car to enter any class. Then Porsche cried to the ACO about the BMW V8, causing the program to stop, and the Saleen S7R to be taken out of contention. Many blame Porsche's GT1 as the nail in the coffin for the GT1 class, but Toyota would have taken that blame if they won Le Mans. Toyota however gets credited as the killer of GTP/Group C in the early '90s. This is how the big factories affect sportscar racing, yet still only represent a small part of the grid. But I'm not teliing anybody anything they don't already know.
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