A bit of insight into Weathertech pulling out of the racing series it sponsored, because the owners kid wanted an advantage the senior director of technical regulations and compliance wasn't going to give him - just because he was crying

When your dad wants you to have fun, finances your Porsche 911 racing team, and then gets the family business to sponsor a race series? He's seriously ready to bankroll whatever you want that will make you happy.

in August 2016 the WeatherTech Porsche team found the new Porsche 911 difficult to drive, therefore difficult to keep up with the competition. They wanted more power. They lobbied long and hard.

But some other Porsches were pretty fast.  Senior director of technical regulations and compliance Geoff Carter told them they needed to raise their level to the other Porsches­ — that you can’t BoP all the Porsches because a couple were slow. But the lobbying continued, and with three races to go, the team decided to pull out and run in the Pirelli World Challenge instead.

That’s serious, but what made it a potential crisis was this: The team was fielded by David MacNeil, for his son Cooper, one of the drivers. The MacNeils own WeatherTech, the series sponsor.

https://autoweek.com/article/imsa/imsas-power-broker-when-it-comes-balance-performance-buck-stops-geoff-carter
https://autoweek.com/article/imsa/how-imsa-weathertech-championship-racing-series-pissed-its-weathertech-sponsored-team

David MacNeil, WeatherTech’s owner, made the announcement along with his son Cooper, who races a GT Daytona-class Porsche 911 from the legendary Alex Job stable.

Why? Because the MacNeils and Job say IMSA has not done enough with the available “Balance of Performance” rules adjustments to properly level the playing field for the GT3 R, and without a rules change, the Porsche simply isn’t competitive with the other cars in the class—the Dodge Viper GT3-R, the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 and the similar Audi R8 LMS GT3, the Ferrari 488 GT3 and the BMW M6 GT3.