ILMC 2011 Discussion

[AndrewF31]

I think only a Manufacturers and Driver championship makes sense in GT.

As already mentioned, unless Ferrari and Porsche change their business model, you won't have Felbermayrs coming over to America taking away Flying Lizard and Falken Tire drivers, and vice versa.
Even for Corvette, with the rumours of European privateers driving Vettes next year, it makes sense.
GT is already quite expensive and 'forcing' teams to commit to 4 more races or whatever, could be a potential nail in a future coffin. Let's not get carried away without analyzing the long term effects.
For makers like Jaguar and Spyker it could pose a problem but, as already questioned before in the case of Spyker, if they have no US market, they don't lose much by continuing to focus on the LMS.
For Jaguar, the way their ALMS program is going, unless they improve that, it would just put more salt in their own wounds by bringing that car to Europe as well.