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Any merging should have been done at the end of the 2003 season. The FIASCC had struggled with grid numbers all season, resorting to boosting numbers by allowing an ACO-spec Audi R8 and British GT runners into the Spa round. However, the FIAGT series had a pretty good season in terms of numbers, and a prime position on the super racing weekend calendar. The solution for the FIA would surely have been to merge the two for the 2004 season, since they clearly weren't afraid to let the GTs mix it with the prototypes as they had done at Spa. This would therefore have removed the need for the LMES and we would have had a 4-class european sportscar series parallel to the ALMS. Before long common sense would prevail and the FIA and ACO would have compromised over rules since many of the teams in this series would also be running LeMans.
But that's an opportunity lost. As it stands, the LMS doesn't have all that much to gain from FIAGT right now, save championship status and the proximus 24, but the ACO probably wouldn't want that anyway.
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