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Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

Amateurs are completely necessary, I'm afraid. They're part of the history of the race. From the very first Le Mans, the race was pretty much entirely propped up by Lords and Counts and aristocrats with nothing better to do than have a jolly good time in a motor car.

You simply can't have a grid of 165 drivers, with all of them to a professional standard. That's not only unrealistic, but also bordering on impossible. Would there ever be 165 drivers available that weekend anyway?

GT3 wouldn't put an end to the Tracy Krohns of this world. The Tracy Krohns will just race GT3 cars instead. Because the Tracy Krohns have their racing licenses, they're wealthy, and they want to race.

Le Mans will run for the 81st time this year. In all the other 80 races, there's been plenty of Amateurs racing in the smaller classes (and, in fact, in the top ones as well).

As someone else said earlier, lack of visibility in the prototypes has been the major cause of accidents.

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