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Originally Posted by E.B

We now have a new category of Historic Touring cars here in Aus, supporting the Winton Shannons National meeting.

For touring cars which raced in Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Known as the ‘V8 Sleuth Touring Car Classic’, (V8 Sleuth is a local website run by V8 historian/ commentator Aaron Noonan who put the concept together) it is open to the V8 Supercars from the very earliest versions to around a decade ago, as well as a host of other touring cars of the day.

There will be classes for V8 Supercars from 1992 (when the V8SC concept was born) to 2002 (Falcon EB, EF, EL, and AU; Commodore VP, VR, VS, VT, and VX), Project Blueprint-era V8 Supercars from 2003 to 2007 (Falcon BA, BF; Commodore VY, VZ), Super Tourers (including cars which raced overseas), and V8 Future Tourers.

Potentially could be good. Certainly plenty of appropriate cars still around...and support seems positive....



Full story:

https://www.speedcafe.com/2019/03/25...super-tourers/

Sounds good but how much will it cost to prep and run the things? As I recall from the times when we used to get reasonable TV or on line coverage of the V8s back in the day (probably up to about a decade ago) they looked somewhat specialised - just like the BTCC cars had become over the years. Deep pockets required to race even one or two events in a season.