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Thread: DTM vs Super 2000
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10th April 2008, 14:41 #21
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DTM has high powered cars driving from the proper end (RWD), but lacks manufacturers and the appeal for the privateers
Super2000 is generally pretty unexciting to watch, but has a great array of manufacturers competing, and appeals to the private entrants.
Originally Posted by JSH
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12th April 2008, 11:44 #22
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Originally Posted by racer69
For example in Macau Guia race:
- 98-99 ST could run similar times then better than DTM's 92-93 cars but the problems are the privates could never run alike the works in the case the cars are still expensive and difficult to find upgraded parts,
- then introduced SP(2000-2003) which are the cheapest, could only run 10 seconds slower per lap than ST which the BMW are the monopoly of the series,
- until actual is Super2000 which the cost are much more expensive than SP but similar of ST and old DTM, but the races are always very close, and the running times are closer as the ST.
So not only the races are care for spectators,also for drivers.
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12th April 2008, 12:30 #23
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Let's not forget that the formulae used in touring car racing in Europe especially have been prone to fading out and having to be replaced. Super Touring was great until manufacturers and teams got too professional and started spending too much money. It also became too popular. Having nine or 10 manufacturers in the BTCC in 1994-95 seemed great, but of course some were going to pull out because of a lack of success. Not all of those nine or 10 manufacturers were going to have the chance to be successful, after all!
At least S2000 has the advantage of a bit less flexibility in its rules, stopping teams from doing anything too different from one another, but now we have the situation whereby you seem to need a TDi engine to win. This hasn't been healthy at Le Mans, in my opinion, and it doesn't seem healthy for touring cars.
I wonder, then, what the next big formula for European touring car racing (and I include the WTCC in that, given its roots) will be? Maybe S2000, with some tweaks to the regulations, will outlast its predecessors?
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13th April 2008, 20:25 #24
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
It not take long before these cars begin to filter down to the smaller teams and privateers, and then we will be able to hold a normal conversation trackside. You only had to look at when S2000 was favoured in the BTCC, it didnt take teams long to get their hands on S2000 cars capable competing at their level
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13th April 2008, 20:55 #25
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Originally Posted by JSH
As for S2000 vs. Silhouette there are advantages to both, S2000 is a better showcase of a road going product as the racers are based on showroom models (obviously considerably modified), but silhouette formulas allow manufacturers to change to new models or make cosmetic changes very easily and quickly without having to make a whole new car and have to start from scratch, so it's not true to say that silhouette formula cars are intrinsically more expensive.
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13th April 2008, 21:05 #26
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Originally Posted by LiamM
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13th April 2008, 21:12 #27
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
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17th April 2008, 18:53 #28
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
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17th April 2008, 21:10 #29
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What I'd like to see is an S2000 (maybe Vectra) a DTM (Merc?) and a Aussie V8 all ballasted up to have the same power to weight ratio and see which is faster on a lap of say Brands hatch.................
Please ignore ALL of the above....
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17th April 2008, 22:51 #30
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