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The problem with the FIA GT2 European Championship does not lie with the FIA as such, it is SRO that dropped the ball in the push for a World Championship series that could have been for either GT1 or GT2.
The Sales and Marketing people at all the manufacturers would like to claim to be the "World Champions" but equally love to advertise that they are the winners of LM which at the moment carries more prestige within their market. As things stand we have too much fragmentation and the only thing that binds GT racing together is the strength of the LM24 and the satelite series that guarantee an entry to what is in effect the "final" for the ACO based series each year.
In the past few seasons the winners of the FIA series in each class were also guaranteed an entry to the LM24, will this still apply to the FIA World Championship? One could argue that this would, in effect, show that winning that series only qualifies a team to enter the biggest race of all. On the other hand for the ACO not to invite the winners to the 24 would further split the two camps and if the ACO then dropped GT1 as a class the GT1 WC would become isolated and have to stand or fall on its own.
The proposal built into the ACO statement that new technologies have a place in GT2 is also significant given the new Porsche and others.
SRO can only respond by making a major success of its new championship and it is going to be interesting to see how this develops.
Does anyone know what the mandate is from the FIA to SRO to run "their" championships? Does it work like the deal with FOM for the FIA F1 World Championship and how does it compare with the FIA World Rally Championship or the WTCC?
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