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Originally Posted by redshoes
In an ideal world perhaps, but in practice it's not that simple.
If national series take little or no notice of the WTCC schedule, which clearly is (or should be) higher in the pecking order, then why should take notice of the ETCC schedule.
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Team&driver setups usually don't compete in BOTH full season WTCC and national-TCC, so overlap or not is not strictly relevant. But the entire point of ETCC is for national top teams to participate ALSO in ETCC. That makes a big difference.
And here, not only does the ETCC moved date conflict with just national championships, but it also *ucks up the multinational NezCup. And NezCup + ETCC I see as a very interesting combo for a team that are looking for expanding from national to a more European focus (incl sponsors).
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The revenue from hosting an ETCC event would go to the circuit, not the national championship organisers, so not much of a carrot.
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Surely that depends on what agreements & contracts that are made...
In any case, that was just 1 potential carrot that could be offered.