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I think the ACO are addressing the privateer teams issue in the 2011 regs. LMPC is the blueprint for this, and a decent showing in ALMS this year would a be a great start. LMP2 should become a viable privateer series.
I think the main problem most people have with Grand-Am is the cars. DPs are so damn ugly. I was re-reading Steve Olvey's book the other day and his comments about Nascar's disregard for safety prior to Earnhardt's death make their insistance on massive cockpit superstructures for safety reasons very ironic.
In the end if they'd allowed carbon-tubbed attractive coupe prototypes (or even mettalic tubbed to CN type regs) I think they might have won over more of the purists. Endurance racing is inherently less about wheel to wheel racing and more about strategy and tactics over a long race. For this reason the spectacle and diversity of the cars themselves is crucial. A 20 car ALMS grid with a couple of LMPs, some decent GTs is more interesting than 20 DPs.
Ben
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