Supercars Gen 3 (2022)

[V8 Fireworks]

Originally Posted by one five five

To me it seemed like the priority was make the Mustang look like a Mustang and come up with something that get’s approval from GM to use the Camaro, then if there’s time see what you can do about costs.

I don't understand why, say, the Nissan Z (as a thanks to their ultimately unfruitful support of the ATCC during COTF) and perhaps BMW M4 were not also priorities.

It doesn't make sense for the Australian Touring Car Championship to only include American cars and not include Asian and European cars.

Originally Posted by Beages

With Seamer now gone, Is there a chance Supercars will open up the engine regs and allow different configurations other than V8's? Assuming Craig Hasted can get similar torque curves - should be a no brainer.

Certainly! It would make sense for about half the field to be six-cylinder turbos (the aforementioned Nissan Z and M4 [in GT3 form for reference], or cars along those lines) as downsize turbo engines are more representative of most modern performance cars.

The loud naturally aspirated crossplane V8s would still be there, but there would be more variety too. Perhaps a maximum of six or seven cars per manufacture regulation is needed? That would encourage some of the 888 customer teams to not run the Camaro, but to run one of the other vehicles.

[Heck the Mercedes C63 is going to a four-cylinder turbo with a hybrid system, but that's a discussion for another day...