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Originally Posted by Pettersson
That was group N. Super production started from about 1998. I remember BMW developing a car fot the German DTC (group N with a little twist) for 1998. I got the impression that this German regulation became the starting point of super production, together with Belgium and the Netherlands. Super production was mostly used in central Europe at that time, and later spread to Russia etc. when Super 2000 was born. Denmark also ran a super production based championship for a long while, but with a national twist allowing aero packages similar to Super 2000 etc.
The British National Saloons was a nice series, remember when it was broadcasted on Screensport and Eurosport. But those cars were even more production based and show-room style than super production. BTW, if someone has info on how that class died, feel free to let us know  . My impression is that allowing super production in BTCC 2000 pretty much did it, together with a decreased grid the previous year?
BTW #2, is the Sportmaxx series (or whatever it's called) like the British National Saloon cars back in the 90's? |
I think we might be confusing things - the National Saloons series was a different (and slightly earlier, I think - Group N Sierra Cosworths & the like, & with ifferent classes) series to the National Saloon Car Cup (late 1990s & only one class, I think). There was a gap of a few years between National Saloons & the National Saloon Car Cup. The National Saloon Car Cup ran as a stand alone series for a while but is what became Class B of BTCC in 2000.
To explain why I am interested, the car in my Avatar (my car) ran in the UKs National Saloon Car Cup (alongside Honda Integras, Peugeot 306 etc) but was actually built in New Zealand to their "Schedule S" regs. As I understand it, "Schedule S" was a sort of local Goup N+ series. Hence I have considered my car to be Group N+ & therefore akin to "Super Production", or maybe more acurately, as a forerunner to what became "Super Production".
I don't think the Dunlop Sport Maxx Cup is "Super Production" but is similar to the National Saloons of th early 90s.