Talk:World Sportscar Championship

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[edit] Removal of Championship Names from Championship winners table

The names of the various championships have recently been removed from this page as they were considered to be "not needed". Why on earth would we not want to spell these out on the WSC summary table? They were added in an attempt to unravel the very confusing history of the so called "World Sportscar Championship", a name which was in reality only used in thirteen of the forty years covered by the table. GTHO 03:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

  • They're redundant, since the title has now been copied to each individual season page.
  • They take up space on an already large chart.
  • They can easily be explained in the article text.
  • The nuances of minor title differences (for instance the change from World Sports-Prototype Championship to Sportscar World Championship in 1991) aren't that important, and only major overhauls in the nature of the championship really need to be covered. The359 03:50, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Successor series

The FIA GT Championship is not the correct successor series. FIA GT did not start until 1997, and used production based GT cars, rather than prototype Sportscars. If GTs were to be the successor category then the successor series should be BPR Global GT Series which started in 1994, which in turn was succeeded by FIA GT, or more accurately should be the FIA Sportscar Championship which actually used Sportscars rather than GTs. Pick one, but please replace FIA GT. --Falcadore (talk) 22:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't see the FIA GT Championship as a replacement. It technically does not even have World Championship status, although there are plans for a GT1 World Championship in the future.
If the FIA GT Championship is considered a replacement, then the Sports Racing World Cup/International Sports Racing Series/FIA Sportscar Championship is equally a replacement. The359 (talk) 22:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)