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Originally Posted by Articus
How is it any different from HRT, Marussia, Caterham? Just because its the only series with the class does not mean no one want to build the car. Its the 24 hours of Le Mans at stake... Oak have said they will make a 2014 coupe I am not sure if you missed that a few days ago.
Lotus are also *trying* to get a 2014 P1 ready and the program is supposedly real, CFD and 50% windtunnel developed from a post in one of these threads.
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As I said above, there is no market to sell them, so they'll have to be home builts basically... meaning if Oak wants to race, Oak has to build their own car. All the power to them if they do, but it is most certainly not an economic business model to sell such chassis to customers... for their own interests sure.. Then what engine do they use? There is no market for people to develop engines for the category either. It starts to become VERY expensive when you have to build your own cars, and pay to have an engine developed as well.
You've basically limited the category to manufacturers, or entrants who can afford to build their own chassis, and pay for the development of their own engine. You've really capped the category to the number of future entrants.
...and now you know why some people were arguing the need for strong regional series...
Lucky that Grand Am is likely to adopt the GTE category, as you'd pretty much be burying that too, being forced to switch to some GT3 category.