I've moved this here as it would have taken the LMS thread off topic.
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Originally Posted by Félix
I feel you. How can we make a sportscar season-long championship where at least two manufacturers would come and fight for real matter to the public? When did this last happen? The ALMS is a semi-success at best because not many in the general public care about it. LMS2009 was not a continuation of LMS2008 because the manufacturers saw no interest in the way it was covered. (Was Group C really a marketing success around 89-90-91?)
The simplest solution I could see is sprint races that could get good coverage where manufacturers would go instead of F1. Anything else is not TV-friendly and doesn't give them nearly as much media exposure as focusing only on doing well at Le Mans.
If they really wanted to try they could go for a mega time-buy/ad-buying/journalist-inviting mission for the Spa race, while everybody is there and racing for real.
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That's why the LMIC has been introduced.
Tommorow maybe the opening round of the LMS, but in reality it's a glorified test session.
In time the LMS will be a feeder series for the LMIC, in recent seasons too many ACO races have been a shadow of the 24hrs itself.