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Old 20 Sep 2022, 22:55 (Ref:4126637)   #1104
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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks View Post
Yes, and the Australian teams could build GT3 (or TCR) cars and sell them *worldwide*! E.g., 888 could design and sell the official Camaro GT3 car, Grove could design and build the official Nissan Z GT3 car etc. That could create so much revenue!
Pure, absolute fantasy. Not going to happen.

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Originally Posted by Casper View Post
If the car manufacturer does not want to have their car raced with an ICE what happens then? More importantly it seems fairly easy to assume that the four or two door sedan/coupe is just about dead anyway so where does that leave racing series such as SC?
So they don't then. Lots of manufacturers are promoting EV racing but nobody watches it.

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Originally Posted by GreenMachine View Post
The SC model is dying and will be replaced. The replacement may not yet be on the horizon but we all know it is lurking there waiting to be discovered. Maintaining the status quo is not a long term option, it will require a root and branch overhaul, possibly replacement by something entirely different.
People have been making this claim for more than 20 years.

Yet the "dinosaur" has outlasted every other comparable racing category by a factor of 2 or 3 times.

Just like the decline of Rome lasted longer than the entire lifespan of any other society you could compare it to.
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