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Cost control?

The thorny subject of what was going to happen to the next generation LMP2 category cars has finally been resolved and, while the solution may not be that surprising, it has significant impact. Each of the four LMDh chassis manufacturers will have to abide by the regulations to which they originally signed up and turn their top-class prototypes into LMP2 cars. In a market that is shrinking, it’s now a matter of who will lose the least amount of money to do so.

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