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Originally Posted by Speed-King
The champions do, but giving out additional invites to the race winners of one special race would probably go a long way towards establishing it as a halo event.
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If they just started giving auto entries for winning some normal race, say "4 Hours of Estoril" without making any modifications to the race format, it would be almost as stupid exercise as double points Abu Boring Grand Prix. Yeah you'd probably get some extra entries but it would still be stupid. PLM standed out.
If they created 6 hours race in the midst of 4 hours out there somewhere as suggested earlier here, yes that would make it stand out more. But we know the ACO loves their steady, standardized calendars without expectations for the most part.
However, you remember what they did with Paul Ricard 8 Hours - which was rarity in itself - extra points when certain distance was reached. Think they should revive that event back and give auto entries from the winners of that. I'd like that, and also you had one "special event" that standed out from the sea of regular races.
The prospect of this happening is at least a tad more realistic than with my own number 1 preference, which would be to have at least one integrated event with the WEC in Europe, but obviously that is now never gonna happen due to the artificially capped grid for luxury & corporate reasons + attitude of the upper management.