Now Motorsport-Total compare LMDh and DTM.
https://www.motorsport-total.com/dtm...e-dtm-20050801
And I can not understand why those Class 1 cars were so absurdly idiotically expensive even if machinery was almost standard. Budgets were almost twice as big as DPi require. Were those "premier touring cars" made of platinum or what? Should they blame their trust into Premium label? Or ineffective management?
Besides, the article (in German) is full of strange conclusions itself. They say that LMDh is more "international" with racing all around the Globe. Well, Class 1 had two huge areas already (Europe + Asia) - it lacked America only, and could get some sort of Trans Am, and even South Africa (Wesbank or how it can be named today). Only if those standardised motorised advertising blackboards were not so absurdly expensive. How on Earth an absolutely standardised engine with frozen development for 5 years can cost more than DPi solutions?
As they write in other article, DTM's horse appeared to be too high. I'll add to that - no wonder it was shot.