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[Sandgroper]

Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks

I think you've got "Australians racing fans want V8s" mixed up with "Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon fans want V8s"!

Isnt that was the Supercars series based on? or was it based on every cylinder available aka Touring Cars?

[one five five]

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

Isnt that was the Supercars series based on? or was it based on every cylinder available aka Touring Cars?

Supercars claims all the touring car history as their own....even Bathurst history as their own.....

[V8 Fireworks]

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

Isnt that was the Supercars series based on? or was it based on every cylinder available aka Touring Cars?

It's supposed to the Australian Touring Car Championship... Skyline! BMW! Alfa Romeo! Ford Cosworth Turbo! Jaguar! All that good stuff!



Surely it's a perversion that some powers-that-be decided to turn it into the Australian Falcon & Commodore championship.

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

Maybe its because its what we know and what we like, leftovers !

I don't know it or like it all that much...

Wouldn't you prefer BMWs, Ford turbos, Volvo turbos, Mitsubishi turbos, Toyota turbos and Nissans turbos going at it?

How can not providing a turbocharged capacity equivalence and thereby rendering a fleet of Sierras, Skylines, Supras & Starions touring cars ineligible be considered acceptable!?

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

WHO said that was fun ? It was part of the history but no one said it was fun.

The variety of manufacturers was far more fun than samey pushrod crossplane V8s, with road-going "homologation specials" (HDT VK SS) that were generally fairly softly sprung and didn't handle anything like the pukka tourer...