It wasn't so long ago that the ACO's "Test Day" was actually called "Pre-Qualifying" (in fact some people still refer to it as "PQ"), whereby additional cars would be invited to fight for the places - remember Andy Wallace's heroic efforts to get the Panoz through PQ in 1997?
I still feel that in general, the ACO tend to get it about right and I certainly wouldn't agree that the Le Mans entry should be decided purely on Sebring performance, although, as an indicator, it no doubts helps the ACO to decide in those cases where they have 3-4 cars competing for 1-2 places.
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