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Originally Posted by vyselegend
At first I did wonder why they didn't use back the WSC name, to restore some continuity with the past, but thinking twice about it, I'm relieved they choose WEC instead, because a "World Endurance Championship" is explicitly commited to run long races. They're not going to make Grand Prix-like races again.
I believe every parts involved were agreeing on that point, because the ACO had to ensure the championship will stay close to the roots of Le Mans racing, and the FIA surely doesn't want prototypes to step in F1's domain too.
But now that it is officialy a World Championship, it becomes critical that it steps on each continent of the Earth. Obviously it has to keep the big ones (LM24, Sebring12, and PLM), and it would be nice to keep classics such as Spa, Monza, Nurburgring or Silverstone (maybe with a rotation system), and have at least one race in Japan (Suzuka), but then it should absolutely include one South American race (Sao Paulo), one African (Kyalami) and one Australian (Adelaide?) too.
So IMHO the calandar soon has to extend to at least 10 races a season, which will be hard cost wise, as we just stated it will all be 1000km races minimum...
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I don't think it's the best thing to start off with at least 10 races in the first season of the championship. It's great to think big but if you think about the privateers starting with a smaller amount of races will benefit them hugely. it will allow privateers to enter the first season to make a name for themselfs without having to pay a huge amount of money to make it to all the races. This can then be used to seek out sponsors for when the championship get's bigger.
So in my opinion they should have a maximum of 8 races in the first couple of years and try to expand after that. Making sure that the series get's popular and starts to attract crowds is the main thing they should focus on in the first couple of years...