The past weekend, the FIA and ACO surprised us announcing that by 2012 it was going to create a sportscar World Championship (World Endurance Championship). A competition that would take the witnesses of the current Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ACO will serve as organizer) and that it would make it possible once and for all that the resistance had an impact at the level it deserves. But for this you need to do so under the umbrella of the FIA.
On the day of today and taking advantage of the celebration of the 24 hours of Le Mans, FIA and ACO have revealed details about the future of the world of resistance (WEC) Championship. The Championship will consist of seven tests. Three in Europe, including the 24 hours of Le Mans (the other two could be the 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps and Silverstone), two in America (imagine that the 12 hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans) and finally two in Asia.
In sports, the sportscar World Championship will have two classifications, one for brands and one for pilots and puntuara to the current style of the formula 1 (25-18-15th)
This measure should serve to attract the attention of new gear. A Audi, Peugeot and Aston Martin should add you new rivals, perhaps from Japan, according to the true value of World Championship. Once this is done with participants of flashy, not with sounding names.
What seems clear is that the President of the FIA, Jean Todt has targeted the resistance, which got his first big successes leading Peugeot (and I speak of Le Mans, not of his victorious past with the mark of the lion in rallies and raids), and the news is good for the fans.
