Globalising V8 Supercars

[Falcon500]

Well i went on a camping trip so i have shit loads to catch up on and i seriously doubt this one will have a personal touch either....
I have talked to an american from florida whos a retiereeand has numerous long hours which he spends drinking beer and wasteing money on his 57 chev (his missus put a sallery cap on his drinking so the poorbastard is dry mid month lol) and they dont even get the indy race itself...he follows the series and he got that bit of info that ryan hunter ray a rookie won the race....
Matra being into the bikes shouls be well versed in phillip island?...the island was actually up for sale this included the race track and museum and fairy penguin reserve....
I actually like the GT-P class very muchfills the gap we where missing since we lost decent production car raceing....
SBS lost the plot a long time ago and lost nearly all their rateing when they got rid of pro cars raceing to be replaced by british touring cars and f3 and DTM and off shore power boats...win is getting in on the act showing drag raceing dirt and sprint events....
youd be suprised how unsecsefully the NASCAR formula has been copyed we had our AUSCAR series i found them highly enjoyable but it seems not many other people did....picture nascars with some australian cars amongst them and can actually turn an unembanked corner....
Well funny you shouldsay it would never become as popular as BTCC all considering our ATCC hasmore rateings world wide hence its titel of worlds most popular touring car class....maybey it wont become as popular in your county.....
I personally would like to see a gobal production based class like we have mentioned in other threads....
Well we have nearly had a turboed volvo win at bathurst we had george fury in an 80s blues bird with an fj20 on pole and we even had a mini win in the 60s...so no no one size fits all but that said dont look too shoked how well our cars can preform in the most unlikly circumstances
Well our champion of 03 marcos ambrose raced over in europe in f3 and manged to beat jensen button and kimmi raikonnen to mention a few names and he said that europeans strangley lack any real driveing standards (referring to studards/refs not driveing skills) saying that the v8 supercars really discourage shunts with stiff penaltys.....
.....pant wheeze......

[Coventrysucks]

Well funny you should say it would never become as popular as BTCC all considering our ATCC has more ratings world wide hence its' title of world's most popular touring car class....maybe it won't become as popular in your county.....

Yes, I did mean that it wouldn't become as popular in the UK as BTCC. Mostly due to the fact that we don't get the Falcon or Commadore over here, so there wouldn't be the interest of seeing "every day" cars racing, that you could go out and buy.

I, however will be staying up tonight to watch. I don't know which round their showing though.

[fpv_gtho]

its probably Eastern Creek being shown (round 2), its too late for them to be showing the Clipsal 500.

well the UK have started getting the Monaro and around 2006 you'll start getting the Zeta platform based off the VE Commodore

[Coventrysucks]

its probably Eastern Creek being shown (round 2), its too late for them to be showing the Clipsal 500.

well the UK have started getting the Monaro and around 2006 you'll start getting the Zeta platform based off the VE Commodore

Yes it was Eastern Creek.
Top Racing.

I would like to see more Australian cars over here, I quite like the BA falcon.
I think that they would be restricted to performance versions though, as big Fords and Vauxhalls traditionally don't sell well. However as the Monaro shows, it wouldn't take much to convert them to UK spec.
The HSV GTS has been on limited import through specialists for about 5 years now. Most of them seem to be tuned and owned by enthusiasts, quite a few have been supercharged.

[fpv_gtho]

well i was aware that a south australia based tuning company called CAPA had a small range of modified holdens that they sent to the UK on a low import basis but up unil now that was all i was aware of. some surprising things from the Eastern Creek race though, firstly they started under the safety car (this really couldve tested Russel Ingall's ability to get off the starting line good) and they probab;y let out the red flag a bit early. many people thinkg if the race couldve gone the full distance, Craig Lowndes wouldve caught up to Rick Kelly and won

[Bruce McLaren]

V8 supercars are a very exciting series, but the cars are built too close to each other. Nobody had any advantage, it's all up to the drivers and luck. For once I wished it was a bit like F1.

[fpv_gtho]

the sport has evolved too far from production car racing or any group category like Group B, Group C or Group A to have any clear advantages for different manufacturers. when the category was established in 1993 it was regarded that the Holden Supercars had a clear advantage and last year, a group of rules called "project blueprint" were brought in that stated that the same suspension setups, downforce, track, wheelbase etc must be used across the 2 manufacturers to try give a level playing field. there is a wide variety though in driver talent, on fords side alone it varies from a former F3 champion who was quicker than Kimi Raikkonen, to someone who used to own a soft drink company

[Falcon500]

And when you get itno the series youll find there are hige diffrences in the cars...while they run similar engines on the rare occasions you can see the engine every teams runs diffrent set ups and all make a huge effort to conciel monifolds....every team has their own secret there....
And for example Paul moris's car (the sirromet wines commadore) runs a fulhouse air conditiong system....stone brothers (caltex a pritek Ford falcons) run unique suspension that very easy to adjust is and other example

[fpv_gtho]

pretty much all the little things the teams are given their independance on are exploited to the limit. with the engines they have the coices of buying them straight from the Ford Racing cataloque, building them themselves or contracting someone else to, so bigger budget teams until recently have been able to invest greatly in a lightweight bottom end on the engine, but new rules this year have put a minimum weight on the engines bottom end