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Originally Posted by chavez
Is the COTF relatively cheaper to build, run and maintain than all previous versions of Supercars going back to the 1992 rules package?
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Of course not.
But the 1993 era cars were only cheaper because that was all that had to spend, and therefore relatively unsophisticated cars were the result for *most* entrants.
Have you seen the build quality of the 1993 Brock Advantage Racing VP?
http://www.v8sleuth.com.au/news/2014...s-to-australia It could be politely termed "not brilliant" compared to the carbon-fibre and CNC
crafted modern 2011 car like this:
https://duttongarage.com/Holden-VE-C...Supercar~17768
The BTCC really led the way, with the huge budgets of the BTCC allowing for superb, finely crafted build quality of 500,000GBP race cars in the mid-90s -- which of course eventually filtered throughout the V8 Supercars field starting at HRT in the late 90s and reaching everyone by the mid-to-late 2000s.