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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
Balance-of-performance is better placed to balance disparate types of vehicle like a Porsche 911 against a Lexus RC-F, or indeed a Ford Mustang against a Toyota Supra.  |
Not in the situation we have in Australia it isn't - where one event (Bathurst) has bigger significance to the competitors than the championship. BoP is based on lap time - so we see each year at the 12 hour how it handicaps some cars at Bathurst which achieve lap time differently to each other. As always at Bathurst, being fast up and down the chutes is a big advantage and we see the cars with that capability having a big edge over those that are quick in the corners but not as fast in the straights.
That would be unacceptable to the teams competing in Supercars.
As for the rest of your post about a "monopoly" and Ford asking its teams etc etc - sorry, there IS no monopoly, just a manager of one category; and Ford doesn't own the teams, so in reality has little power of persuasion for them to move.
Various people have predicted the end of Supercars (as it is now known) for well over 20 years and one day it may well happen - certainly it doesn't appear to be as strong as it once was at the moment and the big changes in the automotive landscape in recent years (along with that pandemic of course) would make it very hard to work out a good path forward but Supercars is still there at the moment, as are the teams running in the series.