[Fish_Flake]

Let's see. Mercedes-Benz decides to enter big-time racing after over thirty years of the FIA practically begging them to return. Rather than supplying engines to a Formula 1 team, they decide to enter the World Sportscar Championship. As soon as the results begin to show, Group C is cancelled, leaving Mercedes nowhere else to go but Formula 1. Coincidence? I'd like to think not. In reality, prototype sports car racing is the truest test of automotive technology, and not that ridiculous open-wheel stuff the FIA tries to pass off as.

But you guys are right about the glut of series in Europe. However, it's understandable whenever you consider that Europe is a continent with many nations having their own domestic championships to go along with the overall international championships, unlike the U.S., where the domestic and international championships are all within themselves, as we just count the hundred miles where most Canadians live as our own, anyway. (In a sporting sense, of course.) On the other hand, the specs for most of the major touring car and GT championships are alike anyway, with the international championships being merely a slight step up from the domestic championships. And the DTM is just something the German manufacturers do for bragging rights over whose the best that is ultimately irrevelant to the rest of the racing world. (Just like the German manufacturers themselves...)