|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
View Poll Results: Who will be the second Toyota team? | |||
888 | 0 | 0% | |
Erebus | 1 | 7.14% | |
BJR | 0 | 0% | |
MSR | 1 | 7.14% | |
PremiAir | 4 | 28.57% | |
Team18 | 4 | 28.57% | |
WAU | 0 | 0% | |
Grove | 1 | 7.14% | |
DJR | 1 | 7.14% | |
Tickford | 1 | 7.14% | |
BRT | 0 | 0% | |
V8Supercar releases 2 new charters…. | 1 | 7.14% | |
Voters: 14. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
17 Sep 2024, 04:14 (Ref:4227257) | #1 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,381
|
Toyota To V8Supercars!!!! (With POLL)
Speedcafe reporting that Toyota could be on its way to supercars category!
Lord Lucan will share driving duties with Edna from the bowling club for Bathurst 2026. |
|
|
17 Sep 2024, 05:01 (Ref:4227260) | #2 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,742
|
Story here.
We've heard similar things before but this time an announcement is expected this week (according to the story) so we should know more pretty soon. |
||
__________________
“We’re far from having too much horsepower…[m]y definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.” ― Mark Donohue |
17 Sep 2024, 06:37 (Ref:4227261) | #3 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,859
|
I HOPE SO.
More the merrier. OH Wait does that mean more parity arguments |
||
__________________
GO Hard or GO Home |
17 Sep 2024, 06:58 (Ref:4227262) | #4 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 6,818
|
So WAU are going to enter Supercars with a space frame chassis resembling a Toyota badged BMW...
The more the merrier I guess! |
||
|
17 Sep 2024, 20:48 (Ref:4227311) | #5 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 2,133
|
Totally unexpected but amazing news. It's a big win for Supercars and fantastic to see a new brand. One can only feel sorry for Ford as they're losing their best team...
|
|
|
17 Sep 2024, 20:50 (Ref:4227312) | #6 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 6,610
|
|||
|
17 Sep 2024, 20:50 (Ref:4227313) | #7 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,742
|
So now it's official - Toyota announce 2026 entry with WAU.
Very big deal that a 3rd brand will be on the grid. Edit - EB beat me to it - sorry all for double post. More: Toyota is looking for a second team (smart move in my view). Bet WAU is hoping that it isn't 888. Why WAU is dumping Ford and going to Toyota. Personally not surprised at the change - Ryan Walkinshaw has been quoted as saying a number of times that they were looking to bring in a new manufacturer. Video of the reveal/launch/announcement. Tribalism kept Toyota away before now. Last edited by Tourer; 17 Sep 2024 at 20:56. |
||
__________________
“We’re far from having too much horsepower…[m]y definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.” ― Mark Donohue |
17 Sep 2024, 22:28 (Ref:4227316) | #8 | |
Racer
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 166
|
I guess the "parity" issue will start all over again. A 3-way parity formula will be interesting!
|
|
|
17 Sep 2024, 22:36 (Ref:4227317) | #9 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,381
|
So which team will become Toyota’s #2 team?
Could Frosty become a Toyota driver for 2026? Oh what a feeling! |
|
|
18 Sep 2024, 04:29 (Ref:4227340) | #10 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,859
|
Oh I bet Toyota Motorsport Australia has had their phone running hot today via some Team Managers/Owners that for sure.
|
||
__________________
GO Hard or GO Home |
18 Sep 2024, 04:55 (Ref:4227341) | #11 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 3,029
|
Great news!
Fantastic! Hopefully Nissan will join the party with their Z to further break down the "Americana"-ness. WAU and Gazoo Racing have taken the "easy" way out with the Toyota 2UR V8 that is substantially similar to the Ford Coyote. For whatever reason they weren't game to try a turbocharged six cylinder (be it the Toyota V6 or the BMW inline) - oh well. Still it's fantastic stuff, especially if Nissan can be tempted to field some Zs with some Todd Kelly tweaked Nissan VK56 engines (or indeed the GT-R twin-turbo V6 or Q60 twin-turbo V6). |
|
|
18 Sep 2024, 06:39 (Ref:4227343) | #12 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 3,369
|
Do Gen3 rules permit non-V8s?
|
|
|
18 Sep 2024, 06:43 (Ref:4227344) | #13 | ||||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 6,818
|
Quote:
You do wonder where this team might come from? Groves, MSR and PremAir seem to be heavily investing, and wanting to go places. I'm guessing most people are hoping the second team comes from the GM side. WAU far and away the best Mustang team now. Quote:
Mitsubishi is in a similar boat, and Subaru is being kept alive by Toyota. |
||||
|
18 Sep 2024, 10:26 (Ref:4227365) | #14 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,670
|
||
|
18 Sep 2024, 10:39 (Ref:4227369) | #15 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 704
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
19 Sep 2024, 04:18 (Ref:4227428) | #16 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,859
|
Interesting they are using the Supra model.
I would have though a Camry may have been a better option or I guess not as its not a 2 door ? Should it really come down to that though? |
||
__________________
GO Hard or GO Home |
19 Sep 2024, 05:08 (Ref:4227430) | #17 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 6,818
|
Why would Toyota spend money to sell Camry?
Supra is sexy and aspirational and has a lot more margin, and by halo effect will sell other affordable GR models, of which there are now many. |
||
|
19 Sep 2024, 06:07 (Ref:4227431) | #18 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,859
|
Quote:
Its their biggest seller in the family car range. Just a question, I like the surpa, just seemed small car that will stretch to suit |
|||
__________________
GO Hard or GO Home |
19 Sep 2024, 06:17 (Ref:4227433) | #19 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,908
|
|||
__________________
"Your biggest auto race may one day become a Camaro playground", Chris Economaki, Bathurst 1979 |
19 Sep 2024, 12:56 (Ref:4227446) | #20 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,859
|
|||
__________________
GO Hard or GO Home |
19 Sep 2024, 19:25 (Ref:4227470) | #21 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,542
|
Yes, but Toyota will be running the Lexus V8
Don't you remember 888 playing around with a V6 a few years ago https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news...0-sean-hanley/ |
||
__________________
I reserve the right to arm bears |
19 Sep 2024, 19:28 (Ref:4227471) | #22 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,542
|
|||
__________________
I reserve the right to arm bears |
19 Sep 2024, 22:26 (Ref:4227485) | #23 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 15,973
|
Admit to surprise and excitement by the news but as others have said, why the Supra?! It's a sports car, not a muscle car or sports sedan/coupe?
It is tiny compared to the other two cars but then I guess the RX7 was tiny next to Falcons and Commodores back in the day. |
||
|
19 Sep 2024, 23:42 (Ref:4227486) | #24 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,670
|
||
|
19 Sep 2024, 23:56 (Ref:4227487) | #25 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,859
|
Quote:
|
|||
__________________
GO Hard or GO Home |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
SPEED TV Poll of V8Supercars in the US | Robert Ryan | Australasian Touring Cars. | 18 | 22 Jul 2005 10:32 |
V8Supercars on the Thunderdome? | blaarg | Australasian Touring Cars. | 26 | 26 Jun 2003 00:57 |
V8Supercars becoming Future Touring | racer69 | Australasian Touring Cars. | 12 | 6 Feb 2003 11:31 |
V8Supercars go west | DAVID PATERSON | Australasian Touring Cars. | 31 | 8 Jul 2002 11:29 |
Konica V8Supercars - Wakefield Park | elephino | Trackside | 26 | 25 Feb 2001 13:13 |