WEC has the right ruleset to help with balance

[Zynerji]

Why not just allow the sale of customer cars then?

Because the whole point is to reward the DO. The teams that DO the best should be the champions. Buying someone else's DO does not qualify.

What is the “DO” when you have someone else’s blueprints. Manufacturing is not the hard part.

Think about it... Anyone willing to 100% copy an opponent would invest heavily to ONLY be equal. The 90% copies with 10% inventive tweaks is where the differentiation would come from, as all teams would try to make an improvement during this cycle.

They would all have variance, even the near copies. And first-adopters would have a multi-event advantage before copies catch up.

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Someone must have gotten inspiration from my post above.....

https://racer.com/2023/08/15/why-do-tit ... onger-now/

The very article rules out balance-of-performance:

You can do so with aggressive balance of performance, but that’s extremely unfulfilling, as well as being ill-suited to the ethos and appeal of grand prix racing.

https://racer.com/2023/08/15/why-do-tit ... onger-now/

There is no question that a continually adjusted balance-of-performance to balance all ten vehicles would work as the best approach to give Bottas in an Alfa Romeo and Ocon in an Alpine the same chance to win races as Verstappen in a Red Bull, but for whatever reason there does not seem to be an appetite for it.

Even the simple suggestion of increasing fuel flow of the Renault engine to equalise power seems refuted by rivals , let alone wide ranging adjustments of compensation weights, ride heights, power levels etc to balance overall lap times over all ten vehicles (with circuit specific adjustments to negate car strengths and weakness, as per WEC's ledger of adjustments which are different for every circuit) .

The main point of my post was about the total domination in the last 23 years by three teams running trains on the entire field something that most don't talk about.

BoP was thrown in as a potential solution and to that look at the WEC and IMSA fields this year...... They are doing something right new teams and manufacturers jumping in left, right and center compared to F1 with a stick up their..... refusing to let anyone else in.....

We all know this wont happen the teams have to much say and its no different than CART in the early 90s. When the inmates have a say and some having a larger say then the rest it will never tip into the favor of the little guy.

FIA/Liberty have made it clear the only tweaks they are going to make between the major rules changes are micky mouse BS to entertain the children watching at home....