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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
The European Touring Car Championship continued with Super Touring for one more year until 2001, giving rise to such beauties as the 156 Super Tourer. Even they gave up on the class after then though..
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The European Touring Car Championship was held with super tourers in 2000 and 2001
and let's be honest it was formed on the rotten corpse of the italian super turismo which folded at end of 1999 season due to lack of entries (they barely could get 10 cars in most races....) and also from corpse of 1999 STW (like the works Honda team which went from STW to ETCC) , the irony is the 1999 STW was actually still in good health and produced some great racing and controverises !!!! works cars from Honda, Opel , Alfa Romeo and semi works cars from Audi... (as works 4WD was banned by this point) and plenty of privatters on the grid , mostly with Vectras , Alfas and Audi.
now the 2001 ETCC races are on youtube and frankly they are mostly BORING , because the quality difference of the small field is just too much , 2 full works teams and the rest bunch of privateers with no chance, 2000 season by comparison was better supported and racing was more exiting