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Originally Posted by Anyopenroad
I think this is right and reading the full article the teams concerned do as well. Le Mans is primarily a WEC race. ELMS and ALMS are WEC feeder series. There’s not much left to go round after that. A European team leaving WEC to go to IMSA will have known this.
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They did. Or at least Van Eerd knew very well his chances were to be very slim. He says he loves competing in the US though and expressed the desire of buying a house in Florida. He's looking to extend his business endaverours in the US and hopefully he'll find the time to do more races in IMSA.
Re the (non) entry selection: RTN is the current P2 Pro-Am champ and having an auto invite reserved for the reigning titleholders would guarantee them a spot on the grid. It would also increase demand for the sub-class (in an already oversubscribed class so not sure if that's the way to go). Just throwing an idea out there.