Sounds like they do their best to equalize the teams, I just don't agree that factory based race car with 200hp should ever be on the same playing field as one that starts out at 500. Put them in different classes, instead of limiting the hell out of some of the cars.
The GS class in the Conti series all seem to be in the same league (their street car cousins) as each other, so that seems fine to me. The Gt class in the Rolex on the other hand:bored: Watching RX8's out lap Vettes, Porsche, and BMW's doesn't seem right:dw: What's next, a Volvo wagon running at the front next year lol?
There were 30 cars in the GT class for the 24 hours race at Daytona, 19 cars at the Miami race and 17 for the race at Barber this past weekend. If they start splitting the cars into even more classes you will just end up with fewer car counts in each class. That makes for a really boring season when you only have to compete against 3 other cars in your class. So instead Grand Am opts to have larger car counts per class and equilize the cars that normally wouldn't compete with each other.
FWIW, comparing the cars in the GT class to their street associated brethen (yes even the Corvettes) is kind of silly since I'm pretty sure most everything in that class is a tube frame car now. For example, the Camaro's running this season in GT are just the Pontiac from last season with new skin on it.