Sorry to exhume such an old thread, but I stumbled across this on the Belgian website
http://sport.turbomagazine.be/ :
Now, my Dutch is not perfect, and FIRE or someone else might want to correct me, but if I (and the google translator) understand this right, the translation of this paragraph would be:
The author of this is Joost Custers, who, I think, also writes for DSC.
I am wondering now, if this is only speculation or if there is indeed an initiative for an American GT4 series - and if so, which sanctioning body?
One could of course think that this refers to the new GTS-class of Speed World Challenge, but I have another theory:
[Conspiracy Theory ]Perhaps I am getting a bit ahead of myself here, but could this be a further attempt by IMSA to attack Grand Am, this time by trying to lure away teams from the Continental Tire series (the GS class is almost GT4) ??
Some normally well informed posters on here and on the americanlemansfans.com-Forum have recently commented about how IMSA could do with a Continental Tire style series, so that makes me even somewhat more suspicious... [/Conspiracy Theory]