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Originally Posted by Casper
No suitable cars to race in this market in the future
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BMW M850i, Mercedes E class coupe, Jaguar F Type and others beg to differ. There are a plenty of aspirational coupes that can join Mustang on the grid.
Supercars goal is to make the business case too good to resist, say by paying for all of the homologation and 80 percent of BMW's sponsorship cost to Walkinshaw Racing.
Judd already do a racing V8 based on a BMW production engine:
http://juddpower.com/our-engines/judd-hk-v8-lmp2/ So Supercars could order a set of 5.0L stroker versions. It should be quite similar to the Volvo Polestar Supercars engine, which was also a stroker of a existing production-based race engine, and should be competitive (more so than the Nissan with it's big bore and short stroke that's not optimal for the low rev limit mandated in Supercars).