Problem is that with the way things are now (even TMG's budget is many, many times larger than that of Rebellion or Kolles) and the hybrid tech, let alone the factory teams' ability to develop their machinery (look at how Audi kinda took off and have, in race trim at least, have come to terms with Porsche in terms of race performance, when they adopted their new bodywork at Fuji), it does look hopeless to have the privateer teams come close, let alone mix it up, with the factory teams.
Right now, that'd take a huge, absolutely massive in fact, rules change in LMP1L for that to conceivably happen. And it'll be more massive than having a 5.5 liter Judd V10 in the cars.
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