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Guess the acid test is going to be whether Janos Wimpffen sees fit to regard it as a world championship after the bleak way he drew a line under the whole thing in 1992 in "Monocoques and Ground Effects".
I can't see this being bad news. It's going to boost the profile of sportscar racing, Todt seems in the main to be running the FIA in a sensible way (and has lost his at times absurd view of Le Mans that he came up with when he was with Peugeot), and having a world title to play pulls more marketing strings for any manufacturer looking at entering.
In the short term it's probably going to be game over for the LMS and ALMS as we know them - but history does seem to show that what goes around comes around - there'll always be sportscar racing in Europe and North America, the flavour and style of it will change a bit, but I doubt it's ever going to go very far away.
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