Max Muir

After the BPR Global GT Series was taken over by the FIA and renamed the FIA GT Championship, many major car manufacturers gained interest in the quickly growing series and entered. This new championship picked up where the BPR Global GT Series left off. The series was composed of two classes: GT1 and GT2. The GT2 cars were primarily privateer teams with a lower budget and some manufacturers, but the real show was found in the ridiculously quick GT1 class.

The World Sportscar Championship, started in 1953, was a global series run for sports car racing. Along with the Formula One World Championship, the World Sportscar Championship was one of the two major world championships for motorsports. This championship lasted a good 39 years before it died off due to the lack of manufacturer interest. Because of the foolish switch from the fire-breathing, turbocharged Group C prototypes everyone loved to a more expensive, Formula One powered prototype formula, teams and manufacturers withdrew rapidly because of increasing costs and decreasing results.