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LMDh with custom chassis and hybrid systems is what LMH is. DPi sometimes sits on the north side of 950kg already and Toyota is already carrying 99kg of ballast over the lightest car in LMP1 so somewhere around 1100kg is not an unrealistic BoP weight over a non-hybrid quasi-spec car.
The issue is not even long term viability it's that there is literally no solid entries for Silverstone in September with or without grandfathering. Not that Aston Martin was one. That's just a result of the current generation of LMP1 cars being meant to only last a few seasons and instead being dragged out to nearly a decade with a moving target for their replacement from getting constantly conflicting and changing input from potential participants, which isn't even entirely their fault because a lot of their priorities keep getting shuffled by inherently spastic governments. What are you supposed to do when a manufacturer says they're totally in for ultra high tech petrol hybrid prototypes then comes back two years later and says they need zero emissions cars racing for overall win on a GTE budget? How do you do get out of this situation without messing with the happy LMP2 teams that are carrying your championships on their back?
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