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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
When Lola (prototypes) was going through problems recently and prior to the IP being sold to Multimatic, the existing Lola customers were having problems getting spare parts.
The hang up was not that suppliers were unwilling to supply parts, but I think it had to do with homologation issues and maybe IP issues.
A pure customer car that CAN'T be developed independently by teams is not very attractive to the existing smaller teams.
We don't need spec cars, but freedom to source as much as of the car as we please from ANY vendors without having IP/Constructor hoops to jump through.
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I totally agree. Customer teams should be allowed to modify their cars as they wish, I mean, they
bought them.
Of course manufacturers don't want third companies to "steal" their designs, and I'm afraid that the fear is becoming worse around the world (TTIP, TPP).
But I'm talking about installing new parts on the car. That should never be forbidden through homologation rules, that has damaged rallying and touring car racing around the world.