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Originally Posted by 96290
Isn't it a case of giving both championships space to grow rather than stepping on each others toes. In 2013 you could realistically have 35 or more WEC cars and 35 to 40 for the LMS
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Originally Posted by 96290
To sum up, you need to look at what grids the WEC and LMS could get in 2013 and how the LMS in particular would be in a difficult position turning teams away.
The LMS in the mid 2000's saw a grid boom in just one close season and Blancpain is experiencing one now, you can't rely on the LMS always having under 30 cars in fact theyre expecting 35 this season.
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This is all wishfull thinking, nothing to do with realistic expectations. In fact it´s the world upside down - how on earth could the ELMS be turning away entries?
And what´s there to grow for the ELMS? With only a handful of auto entries for Le Mans on offer what´s the trigger for teams to participate in a series that also has a lousy calender? Not even GTC teams are making the jump it seems. Tells you something...
There might be a few new teams stepping up to the WEC but next year it´s not a novelty anymore and there will be teams who´ll find the schedule (too) difficult to cope with financially, and switch series over the winter or disappear. I could see that happening already during this season once the series goes overseas.
The WEC wants to run stand alone races because they don´t want outsiders to interfere with their championship; odd then that the most important round of the championship (Le Mans is a double points scoring round) is run with more than just a couple of additional entries and potentially having a larger impact on the outcome than any of the other races. And since big grids are allowed on both the Spa and Silverstone tracks, the ACO-FIA´s policy doesn´t make sense.
Divide and conquer? I fear it will turn out more like
divide and weaken 
As said, I expect around 35 entries for Spa, that´s certainly not bad but we´ve been spoiled over the last couple of years and therefor the number is disappointing (maybe not at Interlagos, Fuji or Shanghai but on a long track like Spa it is). And realizing that the potential is certainly there for a repeat of the Sebring and Le Mans entry numbers makes it worse.