Quote Originally Posted by PLuto View Post
I dont agree with you. Comparison with S2000 is not the best, because you are talking about same cars in category. R4 was from beginning thought as lower class than R5, it should be a step between R5 and fastest 2WD cars - with the speed, price and costs. And with all protos or nationally homologated cars, I think there is still a lot of place for them, also in Europe. For me the biggest problem for that project was that "Oreca way" is simply too expensive...
Sorry but no such class exists in the current FIA scheme. Both R5 and R4 are RC2 class.

Besides that it's clear that overall results are the most important for the sponsors and a car sitting one class lower but being only marginally less expensive doesn't make economical sense.