The future of most car and the real developments that are made for the road almost always come from the track. What this means is that auto manufacturers are doing a lot of their development for their production cars on the track. So the technology that goes into these race cars is eventually going to be implemented into their production cars. What this means for us as the consumer is that we get better, cleaner, and more efficient cars. So for the manufacturers the different race series can be helpful and used as a resource in more ways than just the competition. The auto manufactures get a nice big test area that gives them the best opportunity to try out some new ideas that they want to see if it will work. Some companies spend a lot of money on developing new stuff in facilities that do nothing but test out the new tech but in Le Mans it is a double whammy. It is good to see the development of car companies in a form that we get to enjoy on Sunday mornings through our television sets. We get to see the cool races with the new toys that we could potentially own someday. Corvette is a very good example of a team that uses their factory sponsored race team to develop new stuff. Acura is another team that uses their race teams to develop technologies that will be implemented in their race cars. So when we are watching these races we could be driving their cars in a few years.