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Originally Posted by one five five
And yet those laps are not the fastest laps we have seen around Bathurst
So why is anyone saying speed matters?
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I think it is the perception of speed that matters. There was a period a while back where no support category was allowed to run at a V8 event if their laptime was faster that what the V8's of the day could put down. No F3, Sports Sedans et al. While those days are gone to an extent, Supercars still allow the fan to believe that their product is the biggest, the baddest and the fastest to the exclusion of all others.
GT4 would be a good starting point for a new or reborn "top level" series, with the only issue being that the Sports Cars are running the faster GT3 cars.
Class One is also not the answer. They are further removed from reality than a Supercar, and the cost to build one is stupidly expensive. The budget that the Germans have to run a squad of cars would probably be able to put you somewhere on the F1 grid, and that is with full manufacturer support.