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This was Dallara's idea and that of Pirelli, not the Frances, and the explanation is, I guess, quite simple: Dallara have so far only sold three of their DPs and with stagnating DP-fields and no one knowing what will happen at the end of the current chassis cycle after 2012 the prospects for selling any more cars aren't exactly great - same goes in a way for Pirelli, who signed on with GA when they regularly had 50 car fields and payed a lot of money to become the exclusive tire supplier. Now fields have shrunken to around 30 cars, but Pirelli's developement costs haven't changed, hence they are missing out on some considerable profit as well.
A European series would give them both another outlet for their products, but quite frankly I don't see it happening...
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