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Originally Posted by sceptic
But isn't that because Sebring is limited on the number of weekends it can run events on the full circuit? Meaning if the WEC wants to race at Sebring it has to join up with someone else. And IMSA is a much better match than anyone else that races there.
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Yeah, that's a fair point, but there are better ways to integrate it than this. Friday race, 6 hour race, etc. Just shoving it on the end is like saying "Look! We have the Sebring 12 hours!". Meanwhile IMSA is replying to comments on Facebook saying "We all know which one is the real 12 hours of Sebring". hm!
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When you say the rest of the season conflicts with IMSA, that's actually only two races: Spa and Fuji.
The WEC has clashes with IMSA every season, and for 2018-9 they have had to make extra efforts not to clash with either F1 or Formula E.
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Also Detroit and the LM Test day still. Whilst WEC does clash every season, it does take considerable effort to make every single regular season event you run a conflict. They almost clashed with Daytona for goodness sake - only the teams pointing this out got the WEC TBC race moved from January to February. And the clash at the end of the season is Petit Le Mans, not a regular race.
When you have teams pointing out that Daytona is a big deal, and the ACO basically saying "sorry, we didn't notice, we'll move that" it doesn't look good. One clash, fine. Two clashes...ok. But every opportunity? Well that's just poor.