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The SCC hadn't yet come into being; 1999 was the first year of the SportsRacing World Cup, which had succeeded the International Sports Racing World Series. The FIA eventually endorsed the SRWC (in 1999?) but I suspect only because their own series had come to naught.
I don't buy that the IPC never had any chance of success. What it needed was a manufacturer to take the fight to Mercedes, and, as I said, with Nissan, Audi, Toyota and BMW at Le Mans that year, it wasn't an unreasonable expectation. But the inexplicable decision by all of those manufacturers not to contest a full series (though BMW did, at least, do some ALMS races) killed the IPC.
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