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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
Marcus Pye- had to be! 
Combining v Jones and JR’s observations on Super Tourers, the cars were originally built with a lot of one-off parts, making them too sophisticated for a lot of normal historic racers to run..... Even the previous Group A cars were far more trick than they appear from the outside!
Anyone else think it was strange that there were no CSLs in the HTCC race? Lots of them about......  |
I believe the later Volvo S40 ST's ('99 cars) had a lighter and more sophisticated gearbox specially developed that cost a fortune to design, develop, test and build - and was no doubt one of the reasons that Gow went the standardised part route in the regs.
We ran an ST car in BTCC and everything was expensive, gearbox, engine lease and re-builds, aero parts and carbon work - you name it. I believe the Prodrive Mondeo's must have been amongst the most expensive to run, literally all the parts had to come from Prodrive, no wonder Ford spent a fortune in 2000 running them.