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Originally Posted by Mixer
It's different when all of the teams have an equal technical chance of a victory.
In the Group A era where you had to have the latest car in an unsustainable arms race, there was only one way it was going to go. The R32 GTR was arguably the last product of the famous Japanese bubble era of unlimited budgets.
Unfortunately now if you own one, the spend required to keep all the electrogubbins working is also unlimited.
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To place this in perspective the final year the ATCC for Group A, 1992 saw Ford win the most races (8), Nissan next with 7, then BMW with 2 and Holden with one victory. It was unbalanced but our memories of the era which recall the GTR winning everything are slightly blurred by the "the GTR was banned" rubbish.
The call for change, whether brought upon by fans or Channel Seven, which ran polls asking their viewers if the rules should be changed to make the Commodore more competitive, was superseded by the fact that Group A was dead (in respect of touring cars) and a replacement formula had to be found.