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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
In the Australian Touring Car Championships?
There's two equivalent reasons, surely:
1. It's a silhouette championship and manufacturer approvals and/or funding are needed, which they are not inclined to grant for a category with low commercial return and without aligned regulations with other international formulae (e.g., no attempt by ATCC organisers to achieve a combined regulation set with Brasil Stock Cars, Turismo Carretera or DTM).
2. It's not a production-based championship, where anyone can build a racecar out of any of those suitable donor vehicles. Many of the aforementioned cars are raced happily in Series Production and the Bathurst 6-hour.
Addressing point (2) by moving to an Improved Production-like formula would alleviate those concerns. If that means everyone runs a BMW M4 because that's the best choice? So be it. There are only two different faux vehicles in the ATCC anywhere, it's hardly an embarrassment of riches as it is!
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All that and just maybe they are simply not interested and never have been. Back in the past SC was invented to be a contest between Holden and Ford and everyone else who may have been interested was most probably told to go away, just surmising here but it seems a reasonable assumption because they were simply not needed. The Europeans have never been interested and are now neck deep in closing down all ICE production and ramping up BEV R&D and planning the changeover so anyone who thinks they are interested is smoking some good stuff and if they message me their supplier I would appreciate it.