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Originally Posted by Dyson Mazda
The WEC went out and picked the worst sports car track in the country to draw a crowd at the hardest time of the year.
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True, but the WEC has a rather restrictive business model and one of the few dates & places that fits is COTA in September, which, as you said, doesn’t draw well.
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Originally Posted by Dyson Mazda
If you ran it as a combo weekend at any of the non-street circuit tracks that IMSA races at next year it would draw solid attendance.
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Which, of course, doesn’t fit what the WEC is try to do (6 hour raccs at Grade 1 circuits). Even
if the the WEC were willing to race at a Grade 2 circuit besides Le Mans, I’m not sure a combines date is in either series’ interest. It wouldn’t help IMSA’s branding and marketing efforts.
The WEC brass won’t like it if the IMSA part of the show draws better or comes across better than the WEC race, which is quite possible. The news stories about DPi versus LMP1 that a combined date would invite aren’t something the WEC is looking for right now.