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Originally Posted by Pandamasque
What's the major drama? FIA won't have more influence on ACO racing than it currently has on SRO's. Both organisations already have to comply with the basic FIA regs anyway, but keep pretty much total control over the business side.
So ILMC will be renamed into WEC and have additional championships for drivers etc (what's the Cup all about btw?)
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This could simply be a renaming job with some changes like the drivers championship that you mentioned. Those changes could have happened even without the FIA WC status of course. We'll have to see what other changes there are especially in regard to if the European races will be stand alone events and so forth. Also, we'll have to see if there are LMP2 and GTE-Am championships.
It's hard to say what the GT Cup is all about. Is it simply the WEC for GTE (albeit only for manufacturers?)? Who knows.
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Originally Posted by Canada ALMS fan
Is it too soon to start wondering what the TV package will be for the WEC? With World Championship status hopefully it will interest broadcasters in North America to carry it.
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I'm not optimistic. The ACO makes the ALMS look like the NFL in regard to TV deals. Even the LMS has a better European TV deal than ILMC, although I guess that is debatable. At best those of us in North America might get some web streaming, tape delayed highlights on Speed/Bloomberg/etc., or something like that.