ESPImperium wrote:The new DTM cars are also in line to be adopted by the Ausie V8 guys as well, and there has been talk of a new NASCAR-2 formula to replace the Nationwide Series that also has had talk of coming into the USA.
All this talk has also made the South American TC 2000 championship has also thought about coming into the same common regulations.
This has led to talk over a new common World TDM championship with 2 or 3 car teams ran by as many as 6 or 7 diffrent manufacturers, and a localised DTM chamionship as well. So in effect there would be 2 tiers to DTM;
World DTM Championship - 12-15 races on the F1 off weekend, supporting some F1 events in some places (Brazil, Canada, Japan, China and Austrailia for example)
DTM Euro Series - 8 races
NASCAR-2 America - Supporting NASCAR
DTM Asia - 8 to 10 races
TC 2000 South America - 8 races
V8 Supercars (Austrailia) - 26 to 30 races (They do 2 races a wekend typically)
Personaly i think this would lead to a really strong tin top series. Lets face it, there isnt a strong tin top series out side of America, and would really would enjoy watching a strong series regionally and internationally.
The FIA and ACO are trying to make a strong endurance championship now, and i welcome this, but watching about 8 to 10 endurance races every year could become tedious, Le Mans is fine for me, but i like watching the rest in about a 60 to 90 minuite programme. However a DTM series that had races that lasted 50 to 90 minuites once or twice a weekend (if there was a sprint and feature race format, sprint on the Saturday, Feature on the sunday) is something id think id like to watch.
any prove to back this up ESP?
or you make this up as you go? (no offence intended)
I would be very interested to so see any prove about V8Supercars or TC2000 going to run with the 2012 DTM rules.
As far as V8Supercars go, I would say it´s "highly unlikely" considering the current CoF developments, and the fact that they have FIA blessing for an "international series". Something, which DTM does no have (yet).
I would be surprised if TC2000 would go down this route, why would they want to?
They have one of the strongest national Touring Car championships in the world, and more manufacturers involved then any other championship.
At one point there was talk to run an US series together with GrandAM (2013+), which would make sense IHMO, seeing that the US is one of the main markets for Audi,BMW & Merc.
If there would be an "DTM world series" or however you want to call it, it would most likely spell the end for FIA WTCC, so not sure this will happen in a hurry.
Last time DTM/ITC where trying to run a "touring car world series" was in 1996 and it ended in tears.
Not sure they would like to do the same thing again, just yet.
But nice pipe dream non the less, let´s see how 2012 in Germany turns out, and take it one step at the time.
As an side note:
interesting choice of engine (if true), tells you something about how much manufacturers really like an I4 with T/C even in a product which has some similarities with their showroom cousins and the godfather of the GRE involved.
