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Originally Posted by Mike E
As per Dallara in '90s/'00s F3. It does happen. But the LMP2 situation feels like watching this happen in slow motion and by design without actually mandating a spec chassis. Weird and frustrating.
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But Dallara in F3 rose to the top in open market, so I don't think it's comparable at all. Such is much more admirable than rising to the top in mandated spec market (created by the same company). And yes I do call it a mandated spec chassis when it's only choice of x and others are forbidden to join.
In the previous decade, it was pretty much all-Porsche galore in GT2 until Ferrari F430 (and to lesser extent names like Panoz) came along, which is something certain people have cited as supposedly negative in comparison to GTE or GT3. But again it was not only a matter of engineering deciding who's the best, but also the open market allowing things to evolve via natural course, not stagnate through spec or bop.