Just catching up with this for the first time.........as I am now getting more and more deeply involved professionaly in the world of international motorsport (GT racing in particular) I thought it would be worth adding my two pennies....
Firstly there has been alot of issues with the FIA GT series over the winter. The organising compnay SRO have been concetrating alot on their new world series for GT1. To such an extent that they have dropped the GT2 series and are just running GT1 and GT3 in 2010. From the laymans perspective there is little difference to see externally bar the GT1's being faster than GT3. However GT3 has provided the closer racing in the past.
FIA GT is not the only race series this type of car can run in. There is also the International GT Open and Spanish GT series run from Spain. Both competitive and in the Open case a European wide series. The Spanish have for some time had ambitions to run the FIA championships as well and no doubt are watching very closely what happens to SRO's organised championships this year.
However what I think far more significant from Morgans point of view is what is happenign with the Le Mans Series or LMS for short. One of the big gripes teams have had with the FIA championships is constantly changing rules. On the back of the problems with FIA GT2 the LMS has welcomed with open arms a number of GT2 teams who have moved across to the LMS. The french (note french) organisers of the LMS have gaurenteed rules stability for a number of years now to ensure they maximise grids. The series provides very competitive racing and of course all the races are endurance (typically 6 hours) not sprint liek the current GT3.
From a marketing point of view it makes sense for GT manufacturers to look at the LMS as it gives stability of rules and the opporunity to go for glory at the holy grail of sports car racing - the Le Mans 24 Hours itself.
There is also of course ALMS - the American Le Mans Series, run to bascially the same rules but in the USA. Giving a good marketing outlet for anyone who has significant sales in the USA too.
From my point of view it would make very good sense given the uncertainty over FIA GT that the Morgan team take a year out to look at developing a GT2 spec car to run in LMS and maybe ALMS. Not the least as they are a french team and the french write the LMS rules...
