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This is where the whole 5/6/7 litre generic motor idea needs to be done away with. The notion that manufacturers from Europe or Asia will b******ise their cars to run a specific motor that has no relationship to the car being raced is fanciful at best and without those sort of cars there is no future for the category but then those cars don't fit the category philosophy anyway.
NASCAR enticed Toyota and no one has followed them on the same path or maybe it was Toyota who were the instigators but it has not enticed other manufacturers to actually race. Unfortunately the recipe for SC went down the same gurglar so to speak as domestic production of the cars that made the recipe. NASCAR in years to come will face the same problem, indeed it is most probably facing it right now with the recent Ford anouncements.
Couple all that with Archer's declaration of getting out, the media rights issues yet to be dealt with and sadly the future does not look rosy at all and there will be a lot of people affected by it unless a new category can be found but more likely invented. Maybe they just use old body silohuettes and carry on but even that has a limited end of use date as fans lose interest. My crystal ball says five years maximum if they do that.
Edit, why the forum blanks out a word in the Oxford dictionery beats me.
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