Production Car Racing (GT4, CTSCC, PWC GTS/TC, MX-5 Cup, etc)Touring Cars 

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Yeah, so weird to try and copy Supercars regs for historics, to make them seem relevant to the new cars. :lol:

Might as well be an open production class category so Supercars can put their stamp on it.
Yep, bugger all credibility at all.

There's already a couple of classes for such vehicles.
One allows you to put a V8 in things as diverse as BMWs, Nissan Silvias and the like. The other has a thin rulebook requiring real estate sized budgets to play at the front.
It's called Sports Sedans.
 
Hmm, a race car chassis that can pretty much take any manufacturer body and has a V8 as its core. Supercars sure did miss its MARC. :sly:

I mean, you knew it was coming. ;)
 
The only MARC I can imagine ever working with success, is the original that used Focus & Mazda 3 hatchbacks as the bodywork.
If they opened that up to any hatchback body, simplified the aero & put them on suitable tyres, they might have a chance of drawing some interest and a following.
More than TCR anyway.
 
Yes, those models. They even had BMW 2-series, A3 and Jetta bodies in the South Africa series.
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It’s just me being greedy. The category is good the way it is. Add The Mustang Cup being an extra treat. We’re going to be so spoiled next year.
 
It’s just me being greedy. The category is good the way it is. Add The Mustang Cup being an extra treat. We’re going to be so spoiled next year.
I'll be interested to see how the Mustang Cup rolls out and develops.
Hopefully, we get good races without too much carnage.
 
I’m wondering who will fill the 25 seats. Would GR86 drivers switch over or TCR drivers join and will TCM and Trans-Am drivers be putting their hands up?
Not just veterans, but look like younger drivers want in.
 
I’m wondering who will fill the 25 seats. Would GR86 drivers switch over or TCR drivers join and will TCM and Trans-Am drivers be putting their hands up?
Not just veterans, but look like younger drivers want in.
I expect the 25 to be taken up in a very similar way to what we see in the Carrera Cup.
It remains to be seen just how much support the series will receive in official FORD backing.
Guest drivers in a similar way to what we see in Toyota's GR86?
A test session in a Ford Supercar?
Good luck & all the best?
Ultimately, if we're to see young blokes in the cars, there will need to be a clear pathway, and recognition of the talents within for it to be viable and worth the spend.
 
Maybe guest visits to USA motorsports?

The way Toyota may try to handle their GR86 to V8 Supra is yet to be seen. They could do with GT3 and GT4 teams on the way to the very limited V8 seats.

We'll see how T8 go. They've got the GT4 team. If they're running in Mustang Cup, GT4, GT3 and V8s that's a good path to be on.
 
Maybe guest visits to USA motorsports?

The way Toyota may try to handle their GR86 to V8 Supra is yet to be seen. They could do with GT3 and GT4 teams on the way to the very limited V8 seats.

We'll see how T8 go. They've got the GT4 team. If they're running in Mustang Cup, GT4, GT3 and V8s that's a good path to be on.
I think Toyota will spend the next two years at the very least, concentrating on their #1 project in Supercars.
What people choose to do with privately sourced funding probably won't garner any further support other than best wishes, parts & panels at best.
To dive in any deeper than that diverts the dollars from where Gazoo Racing want success the most, and that no small amount even at GT4 level.

As for T8, they've only recently had a board meeting that arrived at the decision to drop Super2. I'm not sure that call has been made officially public yet.
Prior to that, apparently, they had no problems from FORD running the two ZB Holdens in Super2.
That doesn't scream to me that they'll be pushed to run Mustang(s) in GT4, as opposed to their current AMG.
If they choose to jump in to GT3 next year, as well as trying to establish the Ford engine program, AND put down the foundations as Ford's new homologation team, they're mental.
It's obvious what the number 1 and 2 targets are for T8 in 2026. Until I had those two singing in perfect harmony, I wouldn't even want the smallest distraction of GT3 customer support.

Super Mini was a stand alone class from the late 70s I think started in NSW.
Essentially Sports Sedans for what started life as a Mini.
I can recall it still being well supported in Victoria in the mid/late 80s but gone by the 90s.
 
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