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Manufactuers will race were they will get the best media/promotion.
FIA GT has done very well in this regard with the SRW events.
The LMES, hopefully, will do the same for LMPs.
I am not fussed if the top class is LMP1 or GT1, they are basically the same thing anyway.
Remember one year the Toyota GT-One was a GT1, the next an LMGTP.
GTS Supercars will never be as fast as even an average privateer LMP1.
The only way GTS 'Supercars' will match LMP1 is if the GTS regs change, giving them more power and less weight. If/When this happens they will effectively become LMGTPs anyway.
Ratel says LMPs should always have a place, even in the event of a new GT1 class competing for overall wins.
BTW, if anything I believe 2004 will be the best year for protoypes in Europe since Group C. True they are not 2004 spec cars, but the Lister, DBAs etc., are all updated cars.
Regardless LMES and FIA GT can work in co-ordination, providing different options for the teams.
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