They’re still trying to make GT2 happen

Ligier insists that there is a market for GT2 cars and racing as defined in the present day. The way they sell it is “GT3 levels of performance at GT4 levels of cost.” Now, the word “performance” is doing a lot of work there, because all they really mean is power. A GT2 car cannot corner like a GT3 car can. What it can do is go straight very fast.

Look, I understand why rich racing enthusiasts want to do that. If they want to race them against each other, go ahead. What I don’t want is for this GT2 spec to start creeping into multi-class sport car racing. They would be hazardous. Even if these people are rich enough to bring a pro driver along with them for a long race, the am time in a car as fast as the outright leaders — but only in a straight line — is going to be a mess.