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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
Spot on. 
There is a open niche for 4-door performance sedans with more performance than GT4 and less than GT3, with rear wheel drive and six/eight cylinders (unlike the front wheel drive and four cylinders of TCR) -- akin to the current product but with manufacturer DNA, rather than generic control chassis that isn't enticing manufacturers.
Supercars ought to get at it, and slot their regulations into this gap.
Once it is establshed Supercars could export this set of regulations around the world?
If they play it right, the likes of Tickford and 888 could be filling 50 orders per year for export to compatible series around the globe! It would make an Aussie proud.
It might be seen (in the short term) as a retrograde step to go to production-based Giulia, Stiger or Lexus IS bodyshells and then apply BOP to the resultant racecars, but it might be just what is needed? An actual Stinger twin-turbo or Giulia twin-turbo, with a lightly tuned production engine, and a suitable Hewland or Holinger sequential box behind it, might be the ticket to entice manufacturers? |
IS there a niche though? Therotically yes, But in practise who is crying out for that category. DTM (and their maufcaturers) for instance have just moved away from it.
USA has NASCAR, but who else outside Australia is looking for that category?
europe, in my observation, have tended to have small 4 cyclinder racing, where as in Australia we have preferred thew larger sedans, Which we no longer make.