2012 AU F1 GP V8 supercars

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Love watching the V8 Supercars--they usually play here late at night in the winter as filler. I used to pull for Marcos Ambrose, now he is my favorite Nascar driver--thanks for sharing him with us.
 
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While i'm not a huge fan of my local series, the V8's are good racing and i always watch the bathurst 1000 race, they do produce good racing...

however next year they are sadly going down the nascar path.. nissan is joining and they are to become a pure silhouette series. they will all have the same motor a 4.6 quad cam v8 i have heard.. same engine in all cars holden, ford and nissan.... i hope they at least keep the bodies unique and in close contact with the road cars.. its the thing i cant stand about nascar... they look like the bodies you slot on old remote control cars.. they bare no realtion to the cars they are meant to be....

rant over..
 
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Nascar has gotten a lot of complaints from fans over that, so now they are trying to make them look more like the cars on the street. I like the Mustang they use in the lower series along with the Challenger.

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michael-king said:
While i'm not a huge fan of my local series, the V8's are good racing and i always watch the bathurst 1000 race, they do produce good racing...

however next year they are sadly going down the nascar path.. nissan is joining and they are to become a pure silhouette series. they will all have the same motor a 4.6 quad cam v8 i have heard.. same engine in all cars holden, ford and nissan.... i hope they at least keep the bodies unique and in close contact with the road cars.. its the thing i cant stand about nascar... they look like the bodies you slot on old remote control cars.. they bare no realtion to the cars they are meant to be....

rant over..
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Michael,

I still miss the group A racing when they used to race production cars. I have fond memories of Brockie driving the arse of his Commodore over the top of the mountain. Hard charging Falcons, BMWs, the V12 Jags and then the turbo's.

I hope they still need to mantain the power to body origins. One engine for all is BS.
 
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Mal,

You should browse the Phillip Island pics i posted.. the old group A/C cars were running there and also ran as a support race at the GP this year. I didnt take pics at the Gp as i did at PI.. they had the walkinshaw TWR XJS, Starion turbos, jimmy richards JPS 6 series BMW, JPS M3's, Sierra Cossies, Nissan GTSR's, GTRS including godzilla's and TWR walkinshaw comodores... they are good fun to watch... but make me sad.. when thet started in historics 2 years back it was weird... was the first time i saw cars that i remember watching when new... in historics.... means im getitng old! :eek:
 
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Today while at Walmart they had a new Hot Wheel--it was the Ford from the V8 Supercars, pretty cool. Of course I had to get it, I blamed it on my son.
 
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