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Originally Posted by BudLightJaguar

Actually this is true. If you think what other issues there are, whining about split starts seems quite pathetic. Because the bigger issues IMO would be:

Races at sanitized Tilkedromes like Bahrain and Shanghai.

Poor marketing, especially when the live stream became paid. Other example of poor marketing was the race at CotA last year.
Got to agree about the live stream bit. They should have communicated better.

World Endurance Championship? Why not World Sportscar Championship? Actually this is related to my second issue, poor marketing.
There was a WEC endurance championship before just like the WSC.

And the last one is the six-hour format. Why on earth they can't have different race distances like 9 hours or 3 hours or races with a certain distance?
When you create something to market you have to make sure it's recognisable. Having races with then 3 hours then 6 then 9 then 13,5 just doesn't make any sense unless it has historic value. (I would love to see sebring on the calendar with it's 12 hour race). Races with a certain distance are not easy to fit into a tv schedule. If the Spa race was 1000 km's it would have ended in 4,5 hours. If it had rained it might have lasted for 8.

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