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Old 19 Apr 2020, 13:21 (Ref:3971687)   #76
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So... what of the noise out the back.. about a certain French/Japanese brand bringing Supercar a different kind of deal to go racing.. live & on track..

There is/was a suggestion that this importer, in conjunction perhaps with a recently former Supercar team, may have floated an idea around lining up a couple of dozen of their sports hatches into a one-make championship.

Idea apparently would be similar to a one make championship from the mid 1980s, with proper race cars, prepped by the teams to give them something to do in the rest break, and run with control suspension settings in a series of races across a two, or even a one day event, operating with officials but without a crowd, or hangers on.

Prize money for the drivers and teams, and picking car numbers out of a hat at the start of the weekend to ‘fair it up’...

The challenge of factory supported drivers may be a moot point with Holden soon to be out, and Ford soon to exit the Focus platform here.

It would be more than good to see drivers and teams using strategy and race craft and strengths and weaknesses of their cars as they prepare them out on a real track rather than simulated entertainment... Might get Fox enthused around having proper content on the teev too, with the thrills and spills real and live...

Could be interesting.. the Yoplait Follies
I must be thick, what is this all about?
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Old 19 Apr 2020, 21:12 (Ref:3971746)   #77
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Renault and GRM one make Megane series I would imagine.

Surely undertaking risky activity like motor racing in the middle of a public health crisis is just tone deaf and risks undue pressure on hospitals.
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Old 19 Apr 2020, 22:16 (Ref:3971752)   #78
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Renault and GRM one make Megane series I would imagine.

Surely undertaking risky activity like motor racing in the middle of a public health crisis is just tone deaf and risks undue pressure on hospitals.
You mean a track completely closed to crowds

NRL are trying their hand in a few weeks..
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 01:17 (Ref:3971766)   #80
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You mean a track completely closed to crowds

NRL are trying their hand in a few weeks..
NRL requires 34 players (13 + 4 bench per side), plus some ancillary staff. Coach, medic, water boy. Add some camera staff (commentary doesn't need to be onsite), add some other medical staff, you'd be at 100 tops.

What about a Supercars event? 24 drivers, 3 crew per car, you're already pushing 100. Before you add marshals, medics, camera, more crew (you're not going to run them on 3 per car). Way bigger production, regardless of crowd.
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 02:39 (Ref:3971770)   #81
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NRL requires 34 players (13 + 4 bench per side), plus some ancillary staff. Coach, medic, water boy. Add some camera staff (commentary doesn't need to be onsite), add some other medical staff, you'd be at 100 tops.

What about a Supercars event? 24 drivers, 3 crew per car, you're already pushing 100. Before you add marshals, medics, camera, more crew (you're not going to run them on 3 per car). Way bigger production, regardless of crowd.
Yet at least 34 of the NRL infield team, plus the trainers and the medical crew are physically inside the 1.5m social distancing requirements to the point of physical contact... while the motor racing lot need not be at that risk..
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 03:14 (Ref:3971773)   #82
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If they could get approval on this one make stuff then they could get approval on any motor sport in the country.

At best it’s a proposition for a support card next year.

Stop making stuff up.
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 05:34 (Ref:3971779)   #83
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while the motor racing lot need not be at that risk..
Yeah safe as houses, if you don't count drivers getting Senna-ed or Brock-ed or Lauda-ed and the resultant medical requirements, yeah, almost risk free...
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 05:54 (Ref:3971780)   #84
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Yeah safe as houses, if you don't count drivers getting Senna-ed or Brock-ed or Lauda-ed and the resultant medical requirements, yeah, almost risk free...

Was thinking the same thing in regards to rescue and medical.
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Supercars may need to find a new naming rights sponsor.
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If they could get approval on this one make stuff then they could get approval on any motor sport in the country.

At best it’s a proposition for a support card next year.

Stop making stuff up.
Still here, still constructive?
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Supercars may need to find a new naming rights sponsor.

That’d be sad due to all the job losses that will occur. And they wouldn’t be the only airline that falls over in all of this. I think most will go to the wall or very close to it.

Losing a title sponsor is nothing compared to that.
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 11:42 (Ref:3971819)   #89
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If your idea was plausible then Carrera Cup or the 86s could take over yesterday. But they aren’t.

When was the last time one of your scoops even remotely came to light?

Constructive? I’m not telling fibs.
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Old 20 Apr 2020, 12:47 (Ref:3971824)   #90
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NRL are trying their hand in a few weeks..
They only think they are and lobbying like hell to try and make it happen. It is the old tactic, tell the world and then try and lobby to make it happen

....Mr minister, we have already promised it and you will look like a dill if you don't give us the permission to go ahead.
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If your idea was plausible then Carrera Cup or the 86s could take over yesterday. But they aren’t.

When was the last time one of your scoops even remotely came to light?

Constructive? I’m not telling fibs.
Except these series can’t actually do that because of multiple car owners in each series and insurance challenges of multiple pilots etc etc.

No wonder nobody wants to come here any more.
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No wonder nobody wants to come here any more.
More Aussies would still be here if you had’ve put the kybosh on a certain member who continuously trolled and argued with members here just for their own entertainment. It really did sour the enjoyment of this forum for many fans (and drivers) who used to post here. Myself included. That member has disappeared but people have moved on to discuss Supercars elsewhere.
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Old 21 Apr 2020, 01:25 (Ref:3971961)   #94
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More Aussies would still be here if you had’ve put the kybosh on a certain member who continuously trolled and argued with members here just for their own entertainment. It really did sour the enjoyment of this forum for many fans (and drivers) who used to post here. Myself included. That member has disappeared but people have moved on to discuss Supercars elsewhere.
Peckstar was a target because She?? was so one sided and could never entertain the idea that SC was anything less than GOD so people reacted to that. I used to admire her arguments because they were in the main very well put even if I did not agree with them all the time. That she (I am presuming) did tell some outright porkies at times but that happens. As for Mr. GTR, his wanting to be king of the kids and writing his prophesies in the manner he did was very wearing and definitely rubbed people up the wrong way. I notice his posts are way less these days to the point I wondered if he was still around.
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They only think they are and lobbying like hell to try and make it happen. It is the old tactic, tell the world and then try and lobby to make it happen

....Mr minister, we have already promised it and you will look like a dill if you don't give us the permission to go ahead.

Could just do a horse racing and power on through. Still baffles me that they are allowed to continue yet every other sport has had to stop.
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Could just do a horse racing and power on through. Still baffles me that they are allowed to continue yet every other sport has had to stop.
The boss of league is the same guy who bulldozed his way through with horse racing and extracted heaps of money out of the govt to prop it up.
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C'mon - you're stretching it now AB - NOTHING is as dodgy as Indian cricket!!
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With the NT easing restrictions it might be possible to start the championship at Hidden Valley, provided the teams can travel interstate.
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