[Roninho]

Both series will not join forces before 1 goes broke. So that's not going to work.

Imo the only way for CC to grow is by investing in it.
1. CC pays enormous amounts of money on purses and teamsupport, which really doesn't help them grow. Stop with that and invest money in a good tv-deal and have all races on CBS. Do the same for Mexico and Canada. With these good tv-deals they can be certain that the mexican&canadian races&sponsors will stay in CC.

2. CC needs more profitable events. I guess with investing in the Nafta tv-deal (and better sponsordeals as a result) LB,Mex1,Mex2, Cnd1,Cnd2,Cnd3&SP should be profitable for CC. Denver could grow into that. That's 8 races. So they need a bunch of other.

The best autosport climate is in Europe. F1&DTM attracts massive crowds, and even F3 (zandvoort&Pau) and ELMS (monza, silverstone, spa) attract 50.000+ crowds. Add in the current weak dollar (which makes a CC-ride 25% cheaper) and imo CC should do 2 european runs of 3 races each.

Investing in this means paying big for good tv-deals (a total of +- 3 mil. viewers total per race for the 6 countries) in the countries you're going to race and making sure that at least 2 drivers from that countrie have a decent seat. This will cost you money (bigtime), but imo within 3 years these events could at least be breaking even (looking at the succes of other races in europe).

3. With good tv-deals in Nafta & europe and races in 3 continents the serie would indeed be a world championship & interesting for a) a big serie sponsor b) engine manufacturers

4) so now you got 14 events on average breaking even (apart from tv-costs), nafta tv-costs being offsett by the drop in costs for purses and teamsupport and a big main sponsor & a few manufacturers entrance fee's to offset your organisation costs and european tv-costs. Seems doable imo, but only with investments.