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Originally Posted by Mixer
You never said anything at buying an engine. Regardless it is a pointless comparison. A TCR engine is 1/10th the cost of a Supercar engine, but who cares? It is like comparing laptimes.
Supercar teams in TCR is not the issue.
Honda and Hyundai are the form cars and seem to be going ok. The cars are plentiful and all the issues seem to be sorted.
However ARG wanted the other brands in and the Kelly's got the gong because Subaru were interested. Anybody else with a brain would have known that car is an undeveloped dog. Nobody has spares because ARG didn't pay for them. Also, by the claims made about the series, they perhaps shouldn't have been needed. 350hp isn't exactly a high strung engine. I would also posit that there wasn't a spare engine at Top Run to buy...
GRM are going a little better but the Renault is also suffering under development, but that manufacturer experiment looks to be successful.
How long before we know how much of all of this is self sustaining and can operate without the promoter kicking in millions to populate the train set?
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The Alfa, Audi and on its day VW go ok too.
Id say the people that have to source the finance and pay the bills for both series are concerned regarding the costs.
We get it - you dont like top run or the Subaru, or ARG and seem to be pretty down on the series in general here and worldwide. Its ok, you dont have to like it - no ones going to think less of you. it's getting a bit like a broken record though.