just throwing thoughts at the wall and seeing if they stick here rather than basing it on firm intel. but they can always fly stuff back with a far shorter leadtime than sea freight. it's just horribly expensive and you need to make a firm decision either way fairly early on whether you're going to chance it and freight it back for a possible entry, or give up your spot and try and get some testing done instead perhaps. both teams use euro-based crews, so they'd have to fly some of them out to wherever they're basing the cars, chuck everything in a container or in airfreightable format and then fly them back again. plus there's the carnet messiness.
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Originally Posted by Coach Ep
Me on the other hand would love to be on it. First thing I would propose, is a transparent ranking system so everyone knows what would required to be considered and how the selections are made.
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if you think about it, it's pretty transparent as it is. it's just not written down.
first shout is the auto entries from wec and the previous season.
second shout is to elms teams.
third shout, if there's any space left, goes to anyone running an eligible car elsewhere with good pedigree, and traditional wildcards.
this has been a year where entries for wec have been highly sought after, let alone elms ones. it's right to reward teams who committed to and invested in this season with aco through the squeaky bum wait for confirmed entries with le mans spots, especially this year. unfortunately by the time they'd done that to a reasonable degree there wasn't any space left. it's really easy to put yourself in their shoes and understand where they're coming from though.
the problem nowadays with suggesting qualification races and that kind of thing is that it was tough enough for teams to nail down drivers without being certain they had entries for the seasons they were committing to. now imagine trying to sign a driver for a race you can't even be sure you're going to qualify for. it's not something you can make teams and drivers do in this day and age, commercially it doesn't stand up.