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Re: Bathurst 1000 Car Crashes

Sun, 16 October 2005 14:35

high_card_ace wrote on Sun, 16 October 2005 08:41

i totally agree, just seeing the BA's and VZ's gets boring...
i don't know too much about the history of the race but i don't think they should've banned skylines...Holden and Ford are just afraid of all the turbo cars.
or maybe Ford should enter the F6 Typhoon alongside its V8's...i'd definitely watch that.

No Holden and Ford aren't afraid of turbo cars, infact it wasn't even Holden and Ford who determined the category, it was AVESCO. Group A was fading away, no one was watching the racing and the TV rights were worthless because no one watched the sport. I remember going to a round of the championship here in Perth, there were 8 cars on the grid !!

Along comes AVESCO and decides that people will watch the sport if they could identify the cars racing (anyone remember the 2 litre class based on the BTCC? cars that weren't sold here), so the class was based on V8 power (5 litre as thats what both Holden and Ford produced at the time), rear wheel drive, 4 doors and must be Australian made.

Today more people watch the V8 Supercars than ever before, infact it's the 3rd most watched sport in Australia behind the Cricket and AFL, the TV rights are heavily contested, each round is packed with spectators, and next year we'll see 3 rounds overseas.

To change this format because a tiny percentage of people want to see turbo cars race is crazy.

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