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Next year we are going to have (or at least there is a decent chance of having) the following manufacturers represented on the grid Chevy/GM (P, PC, GTLM) Ford (P) Nissan (P) Honda (P) BMW (P, GTLM) SRT (GTLM, GTD) Ferrari (GTLM, GTD) Porsche (GTLM, GTD) Aston Martin (GTLM, GTD) Audi (GTD) Mazda (GTD) Mercedes-Benz (GTD) I would also be willing to bet that Daytona and Sebring alone outdraw the 7 non-Le Mans rounds of the WEC. |
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I still don't think it would be such a bad idea to run the championship from fall to spring, ending with Le Mans as the culmination.
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I don't have the knowledge to answer how feasible it is logistically but weather wise it should be fine. Keep the European rounds as is, maybe start with Silverstone instead of the easter date, push back Austin and Interlagos to after Fuji and Shanghai and I think it should work. Maybe even put Austin after the christmas break and Fuji in the spring to avoid F1-clashes.
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Better to have it as either the first race, or early on when everything is still wide open (as in fact they do now). Afterall, events like the Indy 500, Aarons' 499, Monaco F1 race etc. are run in the middle of a championship season. |
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I think COTA should be the last race of the year .... 10 hours USCC on Saturday, 10 hours WEC on Sunday
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I think the 24 has always been about more than a motor race. I see it as a celebration, a clashing of international competitors. Moving it to the end to "sign off" or look back on a season could be delightful and emotionally charged. Long season, long race, and a sigh of relief and relaxation that it's all over. And teams would have plenty of recoup time until the next race! |
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USCC/TUSC has shown what a farce the WEC calendar is. We are told the WEC has such a small calendar because it is a new series establishing itself, and you can't have a race for 3 months after a 24 hour race because nobody could possibly afford it or handle it logistically. Well USCC/TUSC has a full calendar, and a 24 hour race swiftly followed by a 12 hour race. |
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I do admit that a more consistent calendar would be nice, without the big holes in it. |
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Personally, I don't think that the WEC calendar as a whole is a farce. It's just far from perfect. I agree with many earlier opinions, that the biggest flaws are the three month gap between LM and CoTA and the race in Bahrain.
Last season the CoTA race was a bit of a farce and it made the WEC look quite unpopular compared to the ALMS when only 8,000 fans stayed there till Sunday and the track looked like a ghost town just like Bahrain. But I think the problem then wasn't the WEC series itself (or at least I'd like to believe so) rather than the fact it had too similar grid with ALMS. And six-hour day race in Texas...um...I haven't been in Austin but I can imagine. This year I suppose it won't be an issue since they moved the race to Saturday and it will be an evening race. And the grid differs from TUSCC since IMSA has a new class structure. But what comes to Bahrain...I'm totally an anti-Tilkedrome motorsports fan, but when Bahrain wants western activities and they can afford it, then they'll get it and that's it. |
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And TUSCC races only in North America--staying mostly in one country (only one TUSCC race is in Canada, and that's Mosport) makes traveling and dealing with customs officials a lot easier. After LM, all WEC events are flyaways.
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And to be even more excact the first two race of TUSCC are held in Florida. Can't remember which teams are based on the East Coast, but I think there's a couple of them.
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