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Popular series can often split due to disagreements with how things are being run - its difficult to please everyone all of the time.
Sometimes there is a disagreement over rules and regulations (either considered too restrictive or indeed not restrictive enough) and a faction of teams and drivers sets up a similar championship elsewhere.
Sometimes one championship becomes considered a stepping stone championship for well funded young professionals who have a robust attitude to overtaking and passing, which annoys the club racer who was quite content with what was the status quo. The organisers like the influx of money and the press coverage its getting and they don't listen to the core and loyal band of racers. Annoy enough and you've got the makings of a grid elsewhere, so off they and sets up a similar championship.
Occassionally you have a series that starts up and is so popular that the grid allocation is full - witness the initial success of the Citroen C1 series - that led to MSVR creating EnduroKa and then BRSCC setting up the CityCar championship for those wanting to contest 20 minute races rather than 3hr, 5hr or 24hr versions.
Some people don't like travelling far, so those in the south won't support the northern circuits and vice versa, so you end up with a regional divide - those contesting Croft, Oulton, Knockhill and Anglesey, and occassionally they all meet up at Silverstone in the middle.
Sometimes time has passed, people have moved on, and it could well be to reamalgamate some of these championships if people are prepared to talk to each other, possibly accept some compromises, and possibly eat some humble pie - but there is the danger that the reasons that caused the rival camps to separate are still there and it was a silly idea to unify the series.
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