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Originally Posted by Fogelhund

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.

What about when Porsche return, they're not usually shy about selling their cars to privateers? Granted, that won't be until 2015 probably.