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Originally Posted by jjvincent
A few other things.
- Start with regional championships - This is because they know that the US is huge and they can copy with what they do in Europe. Expect to see a NE, SE, Central and West Coast Series'.
- Then the prize money will go up as compared to the peanuts you get in the US.
- Elimination of TCR/TC and TCA - Comes at no loss because the hard core fans in PWC don't follow those classes anyway (case in point, no info about them at Lime Rock).
- 30 to 40 car fields for GT3 and GT4 - SRO has a track record of this and it will happen in the US too.
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How are they going to manage multiple regional series when one national series doesn't work well? And what tracks? I don't think there's enough to warrant a NE series with Lime Rock and Watkins Glen, the Jersey track was terrible. Then what do you add, more club tracks or start making rovals?
SE is even tougher with the tracks you really want owned or controlled by your competition. They won't be able to run Daytona, Sebring or Road Atlanta so you're left with VIR, that "track" outside of New Orleans or the club circuit here outside of Atlanta or a few others.
It just seems like a tall ask to get regional series in a country that just doesn't care about sportscars. And in a series that's already had trouble, somehow SRO is going to magically find money, drivers and tracks? And it seems more than a few of the old PWC TC teams have little interest in GT4 unless they can find a fully funded driver. And a few have seemed to bemoan the loss of the shop built cars that used to be the backbone of WC. To me that was a lot of the series, guys like Davis and his million dollar Mustang in GT against the Caddies and Audis and all the smaller teams building their own cars. Sadly I do concede that day has gone not likely to return any time soon.