It's really lame; there aren't enough manufacturers to keep the series populated with just factory drives, it's the private teems that keep it interesting with a variety of cars and coming up with ways they can get ahead when they don't have the funds to run a new set of Bridgestones every 45 minutes. Those guys busted their ass improving the Viper this offseason and then got screwed for their efforts. The restrictor knocked five seconds off their average lap.

Speed completely ignored the GT classes too, the race should have just been called the six P1 cars of Sebring. How are the private teems supposed to secure more sponsors when the coverage spends all the time on the factory drives who don't need the money.

St. Pete is going to suck, they're going to be lucky to have 18 cars on grid.