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Originally Posted by Purist

NBU38, I would also be concerned about people simply not watching Barber and Detroit because of the lack of the "halo" cars in those events.

One thing people seem to overlook is that, even though IMSA frequently had split events, or GT-only events, most current viewers are NOT used to them now. Grand-Am tried it in 2007 at several tracks, some of which I think it was silly for them to do so at (VIR, for instance). However, they dropped the idea for 2008, even though there wasn't a substantial drop-off in entries.

Finally, this is just a technical note. The reason the current sprint races are 2 hours, 45 minutes, instead of 3 hours, has to do with FIA circuit rules about how many cars a track is supposed to be able to have run in a particular type of race.One of the crieteria for calculating the value is race duration, and one ofthe cut-offs, for whatever reason, occurs at 2 hours, 45 minutes. (Now, since this isn't an official FIA-sanctioned series, there is likely to be some extra flexibility allowed in this department, but you get the picture.)

2:45 also works well for TV packaging.






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