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Originally Posted by Speed-King

That is pretty much what happened in 1993/1994, though, when the GTPs had priced themselves out of existence (sounds familiar, eh?)... Most of the first gen WSC-cars were actually chopped up Lights or C2-cars.



SR really didn't work in Grand Am, though. Their SR-class car count for the regular season races was completely in the toilet by 2002. Then grids virtually exploded during the first three or four years of the DP formula. Sure, there were some subsidies here and there and cheap bank loans, but a lot of the growth was also genuine. I don't think Jim France would have gone out of his way to subsidize any of the pro/am teams that actually made up the bulk of the DP-field back then. There really is no return on that investment whatsoever. Paying key players like Gainsco to stay in the series is something that actually makes sense, but what would be the point of buying an entry from someone like Michael Finley or Jim Derhaag?

Really?