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What is the point of selling cars through Le Mans sports car racing in these markets if nobody cares? Just look at Zhuhai, loads of local hype, tons of promotion by Peugeot and hardly anybody shows up with a whopping peak of 200 viewers on the international stream. Of course F1 will do somewhat well in these markets, since they actually have people outside of a niche that care about it, but how does WEC Sports car racing sell cars in China? It certainly didn't for Audi, whose R18 started falling apart and shedding bodywork 20 minutes into the event and what ROI did it provide for manufacturers racing infront of (liberal estimates) 10,000 people? Is Bahrain a large-scale car market? Will the Indians unlike the Chinese get more than 10,000 people to show up for their WEC race? Will the WEC even be able to draw a good crowd in motor racing-hungry nations like Brazil (I'm guessing no) and Japan (I'm guessing yes)?
Race where the fans are, and support the local series. WEC cannot be the only ACO prototype sports car racing series in the world, it will kill privateers, and when you mostly have manufacturers propping up your sport, just wait until the next financial crisis to see what happens.
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