SCV8 reveals 2004 calendar

SPARK Msport · 1 Dec 2003, 18:21 (Ref:800565)

autosport.com

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Supercar Promotions Limited has announced the provisional calendar for the inaugural season of the new SCV8 Supercar Championship in the UK.

The 550bhp, V8, rear-wheel drive series will cater for models from Jaguar, Peugeot, Honda, and Vauxhall, with two further manufacturers expected to be announced shortly.

Organisers claim that the championship can potentially generate over £15m for the British motorsport industry, as over 90 per cent of the component content and 100 per cent of the build programme is British. In addition, with sponsorship and driver budgets, a further £10m will be created over the first three seasons.

All rounds will be double-header events.

2004 SCV8 calendar
May 30/31* Silverstone International
June 26/27 Snetterton
July 18 ** Castle Combe
July 31/August 1 TBA
August 7/8 Silverstone International
August 22** Oulton Park International
September 4/5 Knockhill
September 18/19 TBA
October 2/3 Croft
October 16/17 Brands Hatch Indy

* UK Bank Holiday
** One-day events with testing on a previous weekday

Sounds great! Does anyone know if the SCV8's will be shown on TV next year...have there been any deals??
Also, how much would tickets be for the meetings..are any of the races linked to support races?

Thommy · 1 Dec 2003, 18:36 (Ref:800578)

Hopefully on Eurosport...

rdjones · 1 Dec 2003, 18:52 (Ref:800588)

Well at least we go the calander now and guess what there are clash's with Everything - Oulton clashs with Brands (TOCA), Castle Combe clashs with Oulton (F3/GT), Knockhill and Snetterton (TOCA), The 2nd TBA Round the RAC Rally, Croft with Brands (F3/GT) and the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire, which takes place about 25 miles down the road from Croft..........

Alan Green · 1 Dec 2003, 19:05 (Ref:800606)

It's getting to that stage now though where clashes start piling up, and the organising clubs haven't released their lists yet!

I guess the 2x TBAs are Rockingham and Donington (unless they fancy Cadwell - yes!).

Al.

cos · 1 Dec 2003, 20:14 (Ref:800654)

re: clashes; to be fair, they can't exactly make a calendar which is totally clash free. And most of the SCV8/TOCA clashes are worked out sensibly, i.e. at circuits which are a fair distance apart. It would be daft to have TOCA at, say, Silverstone and SCV8 at the Rock, for example.

SPARK Msport · 1 Dec 2003, 21:07 (Ref:800673)

On that subject of Clashes, I feel other forms of motorsport shouldnt have to make way for others. At the end of the day YOU decide what you want to see, and like in life you can't have everything your own way!

To be fair, i'd love to see an SCV8 race next year, even if it means missing a BTCC race...the SCV8 is new, its going upagainst the BTCC and what a great way to do it.

**touringlegend** · 1 Dec 2003, 21:43 (Ref:800709)

Pretty late starting in the year for it - almost June!!

They did say at one point their TV deal was better than the BTCC - well if it is it must be pretty damn good now!

ascarracinguk · 1 Dec 2003, 22:25 (Ref:800756)

lol....no cars yet tho...........

chezza · 2 Dec 2003, 00:25 (Ref:800864)

Well I wasn't expecting to see one of these for a while!

Season opener at Silverstone...will be marshalling that one then to see how good the series is...if it takes off!

Eddie_harasym · 2 Dec 2003, 12:50 (Ref:801458)

No Donno?

Smokey 6 litre · 2 Dec 2003, 16:44 (Ref:801627)

im really looking foreward to SCV8, i dont normally see much away from Snetterton anyway so i'll be happy!

sceptic · 2 Dec 2003, 17:22 (Ref:801664)

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Originally posted by Alan Green
I guess the 2x TBAs are Rockingham and Donington (unless they fancy Cadwell - yes!).

Al.

How about Thruxton, Mondello Park, Brands GP...

sceptic · 2 Dec 2003, 17:25 (Ref:801667)

Quote:

Originally posted by touringlegend
They did say at one point their TV deal was better than the BTCC - well if it is it must be pretty damn good now!

I can't imagine them being able to use that claim either.
Perhaps they meant "we want a better deal than the BTCC"

They won't get one.

El_Gibleto · 2 Dec 2003, 22:47 (Ref:801935)

There was no need for this series to clash with F3 dates if they had been allowed to run on the F3 package as originally planned. Obviously BMP didn't want that to happen because it would have created a better balenced and more attractive package than the btcc package.

JerH77 · 3 Dec 2003, 18:36 (Ref:802898)

How many of you are going to the SCV8 races next year and how many are you going to?

El_Gibleto · 3 Dec 2003, 19:31 (Ref:802950)

Well if the series had been on the F3 package as originally intended, I would have been at every round,with the current schedule I'm not sure how many, if any, I will be able to attend.

I feel the series would have been a valuble addition to the F3 package, obviously too attractive a prospect to have competing agains bmp's "tocatour" product!

Alan Green · 3 Dec 2003, 19:48 (Ref:802957)

Quote:

Originally posted by sceptic
How about Thruxton, Mondello Park, Brands GP...

DOH!!!!

Moral of story: check what's been written before rushing a reply...

Al (red-faced and hiding)

**BertMk2** · 4 Dec 2003, 09:36 (Ref:803509)

Quote:

Originally posted by JerH77
How many of you are going to the SCV8 races next year and how many are you going to?

I'll go and have a look, if it's any good I'll probably go to a couple of rounds. (That does of course depend on clashes with other series - SEMSEC dates haven't been released yet so I don't know which weekends are free to go and have a look at something else).

Keith Wheeler · 4 Dec 2003, 11:27 (Ref:803585)

Could somebody enlighten me as to which organising club is running this series (no jokes about the BRSCC please!)?

Jonny Apex · 4 Dec 2003, 13:08 (Ref:803674)

As far as I know, the SCV8s don't yet have an organising club which is proving to be a bit of a sticking point for them. Perhaps the fact the BARC hasn't got involved is something to do with Thruxton not being on the provisional calendar. Brands GP - too expensive to hire out for club (non-BMP) meetings unless it's exceptionally big. Mondello - too much of a strain on budgets (already, some of the teams involved are hinting that budgets - despite what's come out on the press releases - will be close to BTCC figures).

Also, them flamming up their TV deal before they'd even got one was also a mistake - sickly PR nonsense that usually backfires.

sceptic · 4 Dec 2003, 17:25 (Ref:803931)

Not having Rockingham would also indicate it is not BARC.
The key thing pointing to BRSCC now is that the final round at Brands Hatch seems to coincide with the expected dates for the Formula Ford Festival.

Needless · 4 Dec 2003, 18:39 (Ref:803983)

Does anyone have an idea as to what other series will be running in the SCV8 meetings?

Alan Green · 4 Dec 2003, 19:29 (Ref:804015)

On the lists i have so far, there's a lot from the SCV8 calendar above that tie in with BRSCC weekends given on marshals website...

silverstone, may & august
snetterton june
oulton, august
brands, october

IMO that looks like being linked into the brscc to me.

Al.

FABIADOZA · 4 Dec 2003, 23:44 (Ref:804251)

I like BTCC, BUT WILL BE GOING TO scv8 BY WAY OF A CHANGE FOR ONE OR TWO MEETINGS TO SEE WHAT ITS LIKE. iTS NEW SHOULD BE GOOD LETS ALL GIVE IT SOME SUPPORT.

Neil Adams · 5 Dec 2003, 13:36 (Ref:804749)

Im going to a couple of SCV8 rounds probably Silverstone and Brands..

but i'll be going to 7 of the btcc events

is there a chance that one of the TBAs will be Cadwell Park? my season pass covers that circuit and i've never been there, 2 birds 1 stone you see.

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