Not quite right, even not far, Full Throttle : the point for ACO is t be FREE to invite the teams they chose. It's absolutely unfair said like this, but their purpose is to avoid pressure, like having on the grid a team who wants to make their own law in the system.
Yes, that's a french approach we name here 'local association' : ACO says 'love it or leave it', that how they kicked the butt of FIA last years.
And they never fired a car which deserve an entry ; when a car does'nt enter, we know after that was because of entry's directory problems (uncompleted, to late, etc...). I was angry against ACO for the Morgan in 2003, it happears that they didn't enter because they were not able to do so...
As strange as it could be, the french teams are much more angry about ACO than the foreign teams...