[FIA GT Race] FIA GT Rnd 8: Istanbul 2005

[JAG]

Theres a big difference between factory teams from Porsche, Nissan, Toyota, Audi, BMW, as opposed to Spyker, Panoz, Saleen, TVR and Lister.

GT's caters for low volume supercars, with only Porsche and Corvette racing mainstream models.

Is it just coincidence these are the manufactuers running the biggest GT programs?

You can only sustain big budget factory programs in prototypes, as mainstream manuafcatuers such as Peugeot, Audi, Nissan, Toyota can enter.

Should Nissan choose to enter GT1 they would need a homologation special, and no one wants that these days.

[Asa]

One idea I have is that the works teams must make at least 8 cars available for sale, in the same spec, to anyone who wants to buy at a maximum price of maybe Euros 500,000 half a year after the works car's debut.

That means the manufacturer will not invest too much money in the development of the car because it will lose money when it sells it. If it does not mind losing money then I think the private teams will be very happy.

If the car sold is discovered to be inferior to the car raced by the works team, then the manufacturer could be penalised.

I say 8 cars because that will allow interested teams to purchase the cars for ALMS, FIA GT, LMES or the new All Japan Sportscar C'ship. 1 pair for each series.