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Originally Posted by The Badger
One other point ..... just look at the various motorsport championships in America , and how their managed ..... is that supposed to inspire us ?
I will leave it at that .
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That's the whole point. The ACO is being run in a way similar to how American road racing series have been run in recent times. You can talk about the WEC's car count, but so what? There were a few years after the Indycar split where there were, what, like 40-50 full-time Indycar teams in the two series. In some ways, that was pretty damn epic. Did that mean that both series (or even just one of them) were being run competently? Obviously not. We've seen and continue to see the end result. I would think that sports car fans would be especially cognizant of the fact that today's situation is hardly a guarantee of tomorrow's situation.
Some people want to justify the WEC's covetous attitude on the basis of the ALMS being quite barren now. Well, the ALMS turning into crap makes the WEC's tactics even more puzzling. Many ALMS fans aren't being satisfied by the ALMS at the moment. If another series came along and offered the American fans a better show, they would be interested in follow that. That could have been a possibility for growth there for the WEC, but instead the WEC wants to take a dump on American fans. The American fans know when they are getting screwed and they aren't going to put up with it. Just look at Indycar grandstands and TV ratings to see how that works. The WEC brand of stupidity isn't limited to America though. It will have an impact elsewhere. Stupid decisions
never occur in a vacuum.
Oh, and justifying stupidity by saying that the WEC is less stupid than the ALMS isn't the answer. Stupid is stupid regardless of how that stupidity compares to others. It's also not about there being a world championship or not. It does not matter if it's a world championship or the championship of France, it has to be run wisely and strategically. Given that it is a world championship, ****ing off a large number of potential fans in one part of the world in order to grab a bag of blood money isn't wise and strategic thinking.