Michtell,
the flaw in your analysis is, that Germany has like 100-ish teams. Even if they would make up the whole Top20, they only had 20% of their teams in the Top20...
Guys,
why I and (probably Thijs as well) brought up Monash is because they were once the badest guys in town. I mean we feared that winged Monster.
Without Monash and the awesomeness of their guys, our aero package back in 2012 would have been a shit show. I learned so much from Marc Russouw and Scott and all those guys.
Just seeing them not able to compete for a Top5 in AutoX or the out-right win in SkidPad.. that just "feels wrong".
The thing is, at the moment I don't see any non-German-cluster (NL,GER,AT,CH) team that is able to win a competition without the issues of one of those teams. You can argue all day long, but if the likes of Stuttgart, Munich, Karlsruhe, Delft, Zurich or Graz are in town, there is no American (w/o GFR), no British, no Australian, no Japanese team out there that can stop them, which is kind of sad.
Monash was once this "exception". Maybe now it is ECU.
Of course a lot of teams can run in the Top20, but that's just a different ball game.
The best "non-German/austrian" team at FSG Combustion was Hertfordshire in P14. They were 11seconds off-pace in AutoX. (9 seconds if they would have not hit a cone in Run 4)
Maybe in fact we need something to slow these other teams down...