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Originally Posted by Jack65
Basically the V8 formula was forced upon CAMS by Ford and Holden in cahoots with Channel 7. While a concession was made to allow the M3 to continue to race in 1993, in reality it was never going to be allowed to be competitive, and was probably only allowed in to snuff out a 2 litre series, of which BMW were likely to be the biggest supporter. At that stage Ford and Holden had a combined 50% market share (how times have changed), so thus more pulling power and no intention of sharing the limelight with or playing second fiddle to any other manufacturers.
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Can't believe this is all a quarter of a century ago, but when you view things as they were at the time and with Ford and Holden being so dominant domestically, the V8 series made sense and obviously worked and before long there was a truly professional series with stability.
BMW was never a big local contributor. If you go back and read about their exploits in Group A and Group C in AMC magazine, really they relied on commercial sponsorship for the most part and BMW just facilitated making cars and parts available. Nice but nothing to build a series around.