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Originally Posted by davyboy
I disagree. This makes perfect sense. BMW, Audi and Mercedes are the largest premium car brands in the world. What better than to run series showcasing 'suped up versions' of their cars in their three biggest markets - US, Germany and Japan. Indycar, sports cars or even F1 bear no relation whatsoever to the road going output of manufacturers... at least DTM looks somewhat like them. DTM is massively successful in Germany and if these additional series even garner a fraction of the attention in the US and Japan, they'll have made sense.
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Imo DTM is succesfull in Germany because the manufacturers spent tens of millions in promotion of the events. I really don't think it in the cars. I'm very confident that if DTM was a serie with LMP1 or Superleague cars it would be way more popular (assuming the manufacturers would spent the same $ on promotion).
Apart from the manufacturers (through ITR) controlling the serie i see no advantage for going this route over entering in LMP1 or indycar.