Lower midpack teams like Team 18 and Matt Stone Racing just won two races, "**** teams" rather than lower midpack if you prefer, so clearly something is not right.
Four of the top five teams are now running Mustang-bodied cars, so their poor results seem illogical if the cars have equal performance.
2022 Teams Championship
1 Red Bull Ampol Racing 5900pts
2 Shell V-Power Racing Team 5172 -728
3 Tickford Racing 4656 -1244
4 Walkinshaw Andretti United 4448 -1452
5 Penrite Racing 3866 -2034
6 Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus 3856 -2044
7 Team 18 3401 -2499
8 Brad Jones Racing 3260 -2640
9 Truck Assist Racing 2502 -3398
10 Nulon Racing 2418 -3482
The upturn in form by every single one of the 6th to 10th placed teams seems beyond coincidence.
Fox Sports notes the inexplicable improvement by General Motors teams:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/motorsp...c2f96823afd64b
Hmm...
Conversely, the downturn by every single one of the 2nd to 5th placed teams seems beyond coincidence too. They are all different teams and different engineering groups in those 6th-10th placed teams and 2nd-5th placed teams respectively, so you wouldn't expect such a body shape-related trend if performance is
independent of what body shape of car you are running.
The only tenuous link is that there are a lot of former 888 customer teams running the Camaro body shape that may have been advantaged by the Gen 3 car favouring experience with a 888-style suspension setup, which the Gen 3 car wasn't supposed to favour -- it was supposed to be a neutral, impartial control suspension despite being designed by 888.