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Originally Posted by one five five
Pushing your standard "cars shouldn't be built from production shells" line still....
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After 2 races with the possibility of 2 cars already potentially needing a re-shell, albeit at a track notorious for serious accidents, I hardly think its a ridiculous assertion.
Obviously Gregg Hansford died in similar cars to TCR at this track, and it is a fairly well held belief that the crash between Courtney and Premat at PI could have resulted in a fatality if the car had been a production shell with driver in the standard position, rather than the COTF.
So you can't argue with the fact that TCR is less safe, and more expensive to repair serious crashes than a bespoke racing chassis, but they are half the price to buy.
Are TCR cars as fast as super tourers were?
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Originally Posted by one five five
factory supported teams have never been against the rules, just factory owned and run teams. Same goes with GT3, both are built on the same principles
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The AA article made it sound as though Mazda was "arranging" for the cars to be shipped down here and was going to own them.
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Cyan Racing is not a factory team, unless you are telling us Geely owns them?
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Yeah and Bernie Ecclestone never owned F1.
They were THE Volvo factory racing outfit, and they are the Geely factory racing outfit, in every other way other than paper ownership.
Even the press says it:
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The oddly named mobility startup Lynk & Co announced on Friday that it's going racing. It has partnered with Cyan Racing, aka the official Volvo factory motorsports team, to try its luck in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, something with which Cyan is intimately familiar.
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It is semantics, but if you look at the colours and talent in that team, it is as much a factory effort as their Supercars, WTCC, STCC etc has been.