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Originally Posted by Maelochs
I'd be happy to see a bunch of full-on two- and three-liter normally aspirated sports racers and GTs going at it .... a lot more affordable than all the "cutting-edge", change-every-season regulations we have now. But how many people will be happy watching cars going by slower than they used to?
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It does not cost nearly the current budgets to produce current lap times, they are massively inflated by marketing requirements forcing sub-optimal performance platforms that operate in actual performance windows that haven't really changed from 20 or 30 years ago. A $100,000 tube frame pushrod Trans-Am car is as fast as a $600,000 direct injected turbocharged carbon everything GT3. Heck just look at Hypercar's projected lap times being the same as a current LMP2 car for several times the money, or how LMP3 is the cheapest class in ELMS by a wide margin but the second fastest.
If you take the factories and the "gentleman" brand posturing out of things you can get respectable performance pretty cheap comparatively speaking.