Your absolutely dead on that, more than any other discipline of racing, sportscar racing is cyclical. My gut feeling is that right now we're in that part of the cycle where pure prototypes are on the way out. From my experience at recent ALMS rounds, there just doesn't seem to be much interest in the LMP cars, from either a competitor, or enthusiast perspective. For most of the ALMS rounds this year, they had three or four LMP1 cars at best, and a bunch of LMP spec cars. In the paddock, all the spectator buzz was around the GT machinery, with little attention being paid to the Pickett Racing Aston, or Dyson Lola's. I haven't been to a WEC round, or a race abroad in several years now, I'm basing my opinion purely on what I see over here. This were my belief that a silhouette formula would work on this side of the Atlantic, Europe may very well be something completely different. Its always seemed that North America, and Europe have had different ideas about the direction for sportscar racing, the ALMS-ACO alliance being very much the exception, not the rule.
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