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Old 20 Sep 2010, 14:25 (Ref:2761959)   #27
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carsten66 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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I think only a Manufacturers and Driver championship makes sense in GT.

As already mentioned, unless Ferrari and Porsche change their business model, you won't have Felbermayrs coming over to America taking away Flying Lizard and Falken Tire drivers, and vice versa.
Even for Corvette, with the rumours of European privateers driving Vettes next year, it makes sense.
GT is already quite expensive and 'forcing' teams to commit to 4 more races or whatever, could be a potential nail in a future coffin. Let's not get carried away without analyzing the long term effects.
For makers like Jaguar and Spyker it could pose a problem but, as already questioned before in the case of Spyker, if they have no US market, they don't lose much by continuing to focus on the LMS.
For Jaguar, the way their ALMS program is going, unless they improve that, it would just put more salt in their own wounds by bringing that car to Europe as well.
Your aspects are only looking at the manufacturers view... and refering to the works teams or semi works teams but we also have a lot of independant teams on the grids with maybe different intentions of running their cars. Also keep in mind the sponsors with their targets on marketing... and they are paying the bills at least and have a say...

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