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Originally Posted by Speed-King
I have a feeling that the time for teams like Chamberlain in the LMS is slowly running out, as the bar has been raised tremendously with the arrival of the factory P1 teams and the RS Spyders in P2.
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Only partially imho. There's always been a spot for privateer protos historically despite works teams being out there. What is a certainty is that teams like Chamberlain will have a tough time on LMP1 or even to make it there. The current field (Audi, Peugeot, Lola-Aston, Pescarolo, Oreca...) will only allow for big time efforts like Epsilon Euskadi to take a shot at it and even then it's not easy... I agree there's also a gap opening in LMP2 but it's still a more accessible class to race in even if the Porsches and other strong efforts like Embassy might raise the bar in the next year or so. Not the "us and them" from the ALMS where you cannot compete with Acura and Penske but starting to go in that direction...