WI the FIA made better sportscar rules in 1968?

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In 1967 the FIA stipulated prototype sports racers were to be 3 litres and GT cars with more than 50 produced could be 5 litres. The result was a disaster: Ferrari boycotted 1968, Ford dropped the GT40 and built the P68 which sucked, Porsche has the 908 which was good enough I suppose. In April 1968, after only 4 months of poor fields the FIA changed the GT number from 50 to 25 which resulted in the Porsche 917 and later the Ferrari 512. The 3 litres sort of fell by the wayside in favour of the big bangers.

WI the FIA did something different? Perhaps they still allowed the big bangers in some form?
 

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If they still allowed massive Engines Ford might actually have one of the Top Factory teams for LMP-type cars. In the eighties they might run a third or fourth generation Mustang-based car (hopefully on something like the Fox-platform) as a GT.
 
In 1968 Ford built the P68 sportscar with the 3 litre DFV which didn't do much, evolved it into the P69 for 1969 which also didn't do much. Ferrari built the 312P for 1969 which also didn't do much, probably because it appeared at the same time as the Porsche 917. About the only 3 litre car of note was the Porsche 908, and it was quickly overshadowed by the 917.

The FIA chopped and changed the rules every year between 1967 and 1971, so the small manufacturers like Ferrari didn't know if they were Arthur or Martha. They also showed sympathy to Lola and Ford but not Ferrari with the GT class. Perhaps when the FIA changed the homolgation target for Group 4 GT cars from 50 to 25 they could informally tell Ferrari that all of their 4+ litre cars from 1965 onwards could be counted in the homolgation numbers; 330 & 365P2, 330P3, 412P, 330P3/4, 330/350P4. This would leave Ferrari with only about 10 cars to build in 1968 to reach the target of 25. I'd think that if they abandoned the 312P they could do it, basically a 4.2 litre P4 which would have the advantage over the Porsche 917 in that it was already a proved race winner.
 
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