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Originally Posted by JABWOA
IIRC, the V8's wanted top billing or at least equal billing (to match thier ego's) and the event organisers quite rightly refused but then the CWWS/ChampCar collapse occured and played into thier hands (same thing happened at the F1 AGP)
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The Gold Coast event has been a double header with the V8s having equal billing and their own pit lane since 2005. There was no resistance from either the organisers or the government - the time was right for it.
V8s have never asked for equal billing with Formula 1.