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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
Fans just want to see the Australian Touring Car Championship back in a good place! The TOCA Australia split was messy and should have been avoided by better accommodating BMW Motorsport. The ARDC Bathurst 1000km split was also messy and of poor ethics by "V8 Supercars".
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The "TOCA Australia split" as you call it was close to 30 years ago and wasn't a good time in the sport but TOCA (Mr Gow) has also admitted that with hindsight it made some big mistakes and was just as much to blame for the "split".
The Bathurst split was also nearly 30 years ago, and also was most definitely a one-sided situation but neither TOCA/ARDC nor AVESCO was prepared to give ground to the other - so, again, blaming the Supercar people alone is completely unrealistic with this one too.
Of course, with those events nearly 30 years ago, there's been a lot of water under the bridge, some really, really top-shelf racing and success and a long history, with two complete changes of ownership and structure since then, so it really isn't relevant to the organisation of today at all.