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Originally posted by kmchow
Were there more Group A based championships than ST championships? I've been a touring car fan only since '95, but have heard abit about the Group A transition to DTM/ST rules.
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In terms of the amount of national championships running to Group A regulations, i'm not sure, but all the 'important' touring car championships (in terms of clout on the international Touring Car stage) at the time in the mid-late 80s ran to Group A regulations:
Australian Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship
DTM - though in a slightly modified form, still the same idea
Japanese Touring Car Championship
Plus there was the European Touring Car Championship, and the World Touring Car Championship that was only formed due to the success of Group A.
On top of that there was the big races in New Zealand, the Macau Guia race, plus all the big Touring Car races in the world were run to Group A regulations, Bathurst 1000, Spa 24 hours, Silverstone TT, Fuji Intertec 500, Macau as mentioned.
The closet Super Touring came, despite the success of national series, was a couple of 'World Cup' races and Macau, and two ultimatly unsuccessful (though great races) Bathurst 1000s.