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All this hoo-haa about "commitment to the series" from known players, and all of it hokum. I don't think anybody would have looked twice at it if ARG didn't deliberately seek to literally lie directly to fans. I guess they believed that with the kick-start, that those teams would just keep on going. But unfortunately the Subarus will never be any good, Holden died leaving no chance of any "local" support for those Astras, and the lack of any racing probably put the kybosh on any chance of the business model continuing to work for Brighty. |
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TCR already announced its deal with the 7 network nearly a year ago, live and free to every Australian who wants to watch the racing live, and none of it hidden to all but the 20-odd percent of Australians who bother with pay-tv these days....
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GTR will only be happy if all other categories fail and we are left with the closed shop business model of Supercars that survives on handouts from govt and television networks to prop up the incumbent entrants and employees.
Nothing wrong with that but some of us would like a little variety other than Supercars with Super2 and Super3 as what constitutes variety. I fear TCR may have peaked though with the move to electric vehicles that holds no interest for me. |
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This thread has taken a turn I didn't expect, and it seems there's some history I'm unaware of?
If Juarez's opinion is correct, then it affirms my claim that supercars fans aren't interested in genuine car racing. |
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With pretty much every car lodging in Victoria, I can't see the series getting off the ground this year. Too late to get things happening, even if border restrictions are lifted.
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That's a huge generalisation, extrapolating one opinion to cover all supercars fans. What do you define as "genuine" car racing ? A field of closely matched cars and drivers where the difference in lap times is measured in thousands of a second fighting for position in a race seems fairly genuine to me. Multiple cars sitting idle in sheds or being handed back to the "actual" owners/entrepeneurs because they cannot manage to produce a single race meeting does not resemble genuine car "racing".
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Fabricated racing certainly, close racing definitely, genuine racing absolutely not. TCR falls into the same barrel top of course |
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A generalisation, but not a huge one.
No no, there's plenty. I cant quote every relevant post on this board otherwise I'd get into trouble from Adam. If you didn't like my comment, you might also want to have a chat with Peter Adderton (Ripping off Sandgroper link in the Gen 3 thread). https://www.motorsport.com/v8superca...arity/4876544/ In reference to Supercar fans - Quote:
First and foremost, there has to be some authenticity in the cars. Not only does supercars not have that, they're not interest in it. I refer to Sean Seamer's interview on SEN1116 during the week (I may link the interview later) If then gets a bit blurry and that needs greater clarification. But it's too fatiguing to write and read atm. Quote:
It's got nothing to do with the authenticity of the cars or racing. That's more to do with how "business people" run their "business". |
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One in the same bloke, it seems.
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Two characters have 'star' in their username for a start.
Then there's the combative posting... |
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I dont think 2 litre Touring Car Star is Peckstar, only because I dont read this blokes posts in the same nasally drone that I used to read Peckstars in.
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Anyway. Back to the topic...
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Might as well abandon this thread and start a new one for 2021 and cross fingers.
I was really looking forward to seeing the internationals at Albert Park & Bathurst, not to mention the locals racing at Baskerville. Its been a **** year all round. |
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And now the Bathurst International has been canned, so no 6 hour, TA2, S5000 or TCR to see.
Mind you the 6 hour people were all complaining and heaps had already pulled out, so for them maybe it is for the best. It does seem we're not going to see the TCR cars turn a lap this year. 6 hour back to it's April date, all being well. Would it make sense to have TCR as an invitational class at the 6hr? |
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Mr Hansen and Mr Morcom are on the Mount, circulating in the 2:18s bracket.
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After watching some Australian Supertouring over the break, I realise what I am missing when I watch TCR, or Supercars for that matter.
I really loved the different engine sounds. Especially because we had highly strung NA engines of different configurations (and differing levels of adherence to regulations...) TCR cars all sound the same because the rules are so strict, and turbos suck out all the good sounds. So we have cars that look cool but they may as well be made by Dyson. |
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