[BertMk2]

Originally Posted by W2Motorsport

As with TA2, there probably wouldn't be any manufacturer involvement. Most of the cars are just whatever make the driver thinks looks better as the body is interchangeable. I think whatever happens manufacturer involvement is the problem for almost every series it impacts. Look at WRX, WEC, DTM, V8SC all struggling for the same reason, manufacturers pulling out. The two types of ICE series that are having great success right now are customer racing (GT3, GT4, TCR aside from WTCR which is manufacturer by proxy) and series that are not associated with manufacturers at all. Usually the only examples of those types of series are lower level such as the aforementioned TA2, LMP2 and LMP3, all types of single seaters, etc.

Personally I just don't see how the DTM series can continue on costing what it does without manufacturers. Some drastic changes would need to be made. Either keep a similar level of performance that DTM enjoys now with a spec non-manufacturer involved program with lower costs, or drastically reduce the performance, so that the costs are more palatable for manufacturers and privateers.

Thanks,
Jeff.

What you're suggesting sounds a lot like Superstars (as mentioned by GusGasfuss), the old V8 Star series or the "Solution F" cars used by STCC for a few years. All of those are dead - so that suggests that something isn't right with that idea (although to be fair DTM was running as well - so maybe without DTM in its current form maybe one of those concepts would work).