Quote Originally Posted by UltimateDanGTR
agreed. id love this. although, we might as well call it the World Sports Car Championship, we badly need a championship like that back! this is definatly the way foward, now we just need the ACO to scrap those stupid rules that will basically mean coupes arent viable!!
What the ACO largely does with rules as much to do with what OEM's want. I think Audi since they built both and found because of how the rules were built a roadster. Peugeot looking to connect back to the street cars built a coupe for the same reasons they wanted to take advantage of the rules as well.

Toyota I believe has no interests in building a roadster either and when they return (not if) it will be a Coupe and they will tell the ACO as much.

I am not really concerned about the current rules package as this is a lame duck season upcoming. The big changes are to come next year or as the economic situation improves (ie: more car sales).

I think the schedule rolls out quite well and I don't care what you call it, it strikes the perfect balance with importance and unlike NASCAR, Indy Car and F1 in which you really only have ONE signature event (Monaco, Indy 500, Daytona 500), with this you would have three -

Sebring, Le Mans and Petit and you would largely have many of the same players in at all three events.

This keeps large events well attended and keeps over interest in all series up by offering to fill holes in other schedules. For instance, after Sebring there is no race for up to 4 weeks, but the LMS run Paul Ricard in that time frame and the FIA World GT has a race in that time frame as well.

After that, there's roughly a race every 2-3 weeks somewhere in all three series. The Asian series if proven well attended (as Super GT has problems with car counts) could see an expansion of schedule by 2012 or 2013 which might bring its race number up to 5-6.

The downside however is that major manufactures might opt to only follow the European series as it would cut down on cost, but the lure of double points at Sebring and Petit would bring them to America and further incentive to enter the Asian series would bring them to Japan/China/Middle East.

They then would avoid most of the LMS and ALMS until fortunes improved (car sales). From there they might have "Satellite" teams in the US and Europe for the rest of those series but I don't think that will happen until 2012 or later.