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One problem with the Customer Car plan is, what if no one buys the cars? All these manufacturers build extra cars and no one buys them?
Also, a lot of times factories take a loss on the cars and make it up in parts. A team might buy an Audi and then find out they can't afford to race it, and have to pay non-appearance penalties.
I like the customer-car idea, but I can see some issues that need to be worked out.
I also like the "claims-race" idea, where anyone can claim the winning (or nay other) car, but what happens if Audi has both its cars purchased a few weeks before Le Mans? It might have to rush two untested chassis through production and lose out in the one race which Really matters all year.
I like the idea that overspending is limited by the knowledge that any one can claim the car for a fair price, but the little kinks do need to be worked out.
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