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SpeedTV in Australia is not allowed to show the series (other than replaying the races a prescribed number of hours after they occur), and V8SC themselves have said that they will stay on FTA rather...

Trans-Am regs in its last few years were basically what V8Supercars is today.

If Trans-Am couldn't survive, how would a series full of foreign cars and foreign drivers get any traction apart from...

I'm told we will get it.... no idea where or when though

13 isn't always abad luck, Bob Holden and Rauno Aaltonen won the 1966 Bathurst 'Great Race' in a #13 Mini Cooper, and Holden continued to use that number for much of the rest of his career.

Race cars have numbers on the doors, full stop.

The likes of the STCC, BTCC and V8Supercars now just look like billboards, and the car numbers mean very little hidden away in the back window.

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To be fair, V8s got the idea from the Swedish Touring Car Championship didn't they, who have been using this practice since the mid-00s?

I think your being abit fanciful with how 'exciting' the COTF is going to be, it is effectively just a NASCAR COT, with a standard chassis and any bodywork covering, not Touring Car racing in my...

Actually i have an interview where Villeneuve says that he didn't choose #27, it was just the number that Team Green was alotted by CART in 1995 as it was considered a new team (after the split at...

It was only in 95/96 that most teams started keeping 'their' numbers

In the early 90s for example, the car numbers each year generally reflected the top 12 driver positions from the previous...

Group A touring cars in particular have risen in value quite steeply in the last few years, particularly in Australia

What was a disaster about it? The grids were full, and although BMW and Ford were caught cheating on seperate occasions, they got found out and punished.

Manufacturers like Nissan were ready to...

How many of the WSB teams running Japanese bikes are actually official japanese works teams, aren't most of them (Ten Kate for example) just funded by the European arms of the companies?

How much...

In the end it was dispensed with because Bernie was pushing the new PROCAR formula (F1 engines in production bodies), which he envisaged as a replacement for Group A and the future of the world...

It was only a farce was because the protest of the clearly illegal Sierra's took 66 days to be heard, and the result was given on the Friday morning of the final round at Mt Fuji....

I was young, but remember it. Channel 7 in Australia in got behind it (not least because Australia was the only country to get two rounds) and we got highlights of all the Euro rounds, and full...

The shortening of the track had more to do with an impending railway running through where the track went down at that end of the circuit.

What are you basing the 'incredible success' of the event...

Exactly, that was the grandaddy of touring car racing in the mid-80s, us Australian's even agreed (well the likes of Grice and Moffat anyway ;) )

It depends how you look at it. BSB had already raced there in '03, and all of Friday was lost due to wet weather of that meeting, so that helped the locals abit.

Wildcards had regularly done very...

Not standing up for yourself and "doing a Coulthard/Barrichello" in public isn't going to change much either...nor bring home a championship.

That only works if cars from around the world are included in the grid mix, be they big cars or small cars.



In Australia at least, all the V8Supercar rounds, Formula 1 & MotoGP are live (at...

If Webber had have put on a public 'team unity' face and said all the right things and acted as if all was ok, then he immediatly finds himself in the Barrichello or Coulthard mould of appearing on...

How many manufacturers have shown any interest though? One could see the control engine being a steep obstacle to overcome

I always took the new regs to be more aimed at the privateers

I read that Brookes and Kiyonari are running the Silverstone WSB round as wildcards. Anyone else joining them (Tommy Hill for example?)

Cheers tannat, good to see you too :) I try to drop in occasionally :)

I was a fan of the original as well, was alot of fun particularly in multi-player