Ha! I wouldn't go that far. But it's not the same.
Supported = commercial reasons. Unsupported = because you love it.
Except that's totally wrong.
I raced 24hrs with a support team and with no commercial interests. Why? Because I wanted to fucking win it and unsupported is a disadvantage in terms of simple average speed.
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Ha!
I wouldn't go that far. But it's not the same.