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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
If you took it down to 2-3 Jota, 3 Ford, 3 Porsche, and removed 1-2 AsLMS auto-entries, then you free up 5-7 slots. Limit private entries to 2, works entries to 3. Yes there issues surrounding what a private entry is (AF Corse), and there are problems with team names. But common sense sorts it. It does look like we're going to have too many good cars. But then if you're giving away entries like this, that was going to happen eventually.
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I do not think you've made a clear enough distinction regarding the complaint with the GTE cars. The Ford entries are Ford Chip Ganassi USA and then Ford Chip Ganassi team UK. The Porsche teams are Manthey and Core Autosport. They are different entities, with predominantly different staff. You will get common influences like Larry Holt, and Steffen Walliser but other than that, the men and women are different
You may be upset about how it's all funded from the same wallet, but at the end of the day, it's 4 different teams. They just happen to get massive consultation services from the Ford and Porsche factory.
So each teams deserves to be able to enter 2 cars. Especially considering the commitment they make to sportscar racing by fielding entries in two different series is a large part of why people pay attention to it today.
I will take 8 professionally driven Ford and Porsches anyday, over random LMP2 and GTE-Am entries with drivers of much less experience shredding their cars all over the track every hour in categories that get very little TV time.