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Originally Posted by Tourer
Good question and your view on the different types of parity does show that sometimes it is all in the eye of the beholder.
In the case of V8SA, it is a parity category and that is based on technical parity. The idea is that regardless of which brand a team races, when that team turns up at the racetrack it has as much chance of a good result as any other team provided the team does as good a job as the other teams - tuning the car, strategy, driver talent/application as examples all come into it. Of course, budgets and capacity to develop & simulate all sorts of components and situations come into it too.
We have seen that through the year when teams running the same make of car have had good/bad weekends in comparison to each other. If parity has been achieved, then the same should apply across all makes in competition. I actually think that the technical parity at the core of V8SA thinking has a little bit of your suggested sporting parity in it but not to the extent of taking measures to equalise between individual drivers/teams.
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I think the two terms are pretty straightforward, but Supercars has done a poor job of managing expectations. Supercars have stated that they're a series of technical parity, but not sporting parity. Mid season changes made seemingly on a whim don't match this statement well.
If Supercars wants to be a series of pure technical parity, then I think they could go about it a bit better. I actually think they should be considering an approach focused more on sporting parity, as I think this is more likely to get the results that the series and teams want. It's effectively what they're doing now, but without beating around the bush.
Also I can't help but have a dirty taste in my mouth when we can go from talking about Supercars being about technical parity to then talking about the apparent extreme differences between top level and bottom level teams. We're so focused on the difference between Mustang / Commodore / Altima and saying that everything is all good, but then what about the difference between 888 and Tekno? #15 and #78?