mikuni Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Agreed, it will hang about for a few more years at least. I never thought I would say this, but I just hope it stays with V8's or at least something decent. With everyone else going to small capacity turbo engines motorsport is losing something. It still needs to be a spectacle, and sound is definitely part of that. Touring car regs seem to have a decent overhaul every 5 to 0 years at the most, so I'd say current regs would get them through until 2017 or so, by which time they might be running coupes on the current chassis, but then they may look at something a little different. I'd be surprised if the manufacturers wanted to run coupes though. Those niche market cars sell themselves, but always in small numbers. Its the mass market sedans that they would want to market with motorsport. Ford weren't offering factory backing from 1979 to 1993 as far as I'm aware, anything with a Ford badge was privateer run, so it's not the huge thing people are making out. In fact many series run without any manufacturer support, look at current BTCC. The money just needs to be there and for that it needs fans etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr1600 Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Hard to beat the taxi racing at the moment coupes would make it to much like every other racing class. However wish they would raise the rev limit a bit further and push those dinosaur v8s a bit further. They dont struggle to do 1000k these days like they used too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I thibk that the type of cars racing is less important than the fact its a good excuse for mates/bogans/trash to get together and drink piss. we watched bugger all of thw actual racing hahahah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikuni Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 ^ they're stopping the construction of commodores next year so it would seem the writing's on the wall, unless they're to change the rules and let a smaller holden offering (barina feeate? lel) in. You must be part Brazilian. Thats the type of thing they do over there. Chev Sonic (Barina Sedan) running a Chev push rod V8 Brasil Stock Cars Or a mini Chevy Cruze running a 2.7 quadcam V8 in TC2000 So lol/weird/awesome/shit 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japawagons Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Anyone clue me into WTF was wrong with everyone's starter motors. I've never heard of anything like it before... P.S That Chev Sonic looks badass... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDA780 Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Excessive engine vibrations?? Surprised that the Nissans still have the powersteering issue they had earlier in the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 I promise to myself to keep on top of next years championship to keep my finger on the pulse. I lost touch this year completely and will admit I was somewhat lost with references to earlier happenings in the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I'm pretty sure the starter issues are caused by heat - pretty common in long races. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 ^my assumption too. Assume they had issues in one of the earliers long races with guys stalling and unable to start so everyone replaced them during the park up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japawagons Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Starter failure shouldn't be an issue on their budgets... I was looking at photos and its no like their tiny super lightweight things. Insulate the housings... Power Steering has been a significant problem for a lot of teams this season... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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