Go back several years, when the Daytona Prototypes came on scene. They replaced the le mans prototypes that had been the thing for decades. Why the change?
This is when it died to me, and I have not followed it from that day to now.
The DP's are (IMHO) following the NASCAR spec- series racing that nascar has become. If you like that all and good. If you like the innovation then not so good. This is why you don't see the same cars at le mans running in any of these races anymore.
To me it looked like they took nascar, le mans, Can-am, tossed it all in a bag to mix it all up and out fell a Daytona prototype. The first years are not kind to the DP's not even taking the over all win at Daytona their first year, so nascar does what nascar does and cripple the under classes to make their preferred classes faster. Then the TV coverage basically switched to only the DP class and not the "production based" cars. I was done. It is nascar on a road course.
Back in the day it was all busted out into different bodies, now not so much.
Back when I was racing, I ran in the SCCA, NASA was just then really getting going and IMSA was for the guys with deep pockets. SCCA was on the slide down and NASA was on the way up. Lots of club drivers, IMHO what is keeping, or at the time kept SCCA afloat (not the cone crashers) started to really jump ship for NASA. They took our Lic, passed our cars, it was no big deal at all to run both bodies at the time.
This is also the height of the power of NASCAR, and they started to grab other bodies, and form it into what Bill, and later coke head Brian France wanted it to be. Only issue was no one know what the hell Brian france was thinking. And that was the start of the slide for them.
I babbled.
Had an invite to Sebring, but I did not want to haul my car down there, looking back should have done it.
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