FORD, FORD, FORD

It was actually the first triple FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFord podium since 1988 according to Mark Compton.

Yes Davoe,

Long gone are the days when it won on Sunday and you could go buy one on Monday!

Cheers
Muddy

Davoe,

You are joking of course?

What almost buggered the whole concept up is when the powers that be allowed the twin egg beater Sierras to compete.

Wth their power to weight ratio, they were unbeatable at the time, but boy they kind of lacked that certain sound.

Then commonsense prevailed and the series was changed to the Holden/Ford V8 concept we have today. And you couldn't get a better concept anywhere else in the world of Motor Racing.

Yes, they may not be the fastest group of vehicles that have raced around a race track, but in sheer excitement to watch and in drawing the all important sponsorship dollar, they are absolutely unrivalled anywhere else in motorsport for a "road car" based marque. Even the formula 1 teams stop to watch and listen to the almighty V8 Supercars race around the track.

So, bugger any other turbocharged soapbox from competing with the V8's. It's a uniquely Australian racing concept envied by other countries.

Oh, and by the way, if I'm not mistaken, any new model from either Holden or Ford, must still produce and release a minimum of 300 vehicles to the public, before it is accepted into the sport.

Just one last thing. The sport is "controlled" somewhat to even out the competitiveness of the two brands, otherwise HOLDEN would win everything and FORD would spit the dummy and then there'd be no V8 Supercars:-))

Even though I am pro Holden camp, (I work there) I can appreciate the Ford vehicles and their drivers all the same.

Competition is good, both on the race track and between the bantering of the two camps' dedicated supporters.

Long live V8 Supercars I say.

Sandman,
Ford actually unveiled their new road v8 yesterday. 300 sedans and 100 utes are to be sold. they are called "The Cobra" at $65000 for the sedan. And I was just a young boy when the XA cobra came out.

It's the best racing competition in the world. Leaves F1 for dead. Melbourne can have their GP and we'll stick to the Clipsal 500 thanks.

Yes the rules shouldnt have allowed the sieras But i really enjoyed the days when besides a procession of mums taxis going round there were mixed in sklines, Jags, the odd rover, RX7 etc
Bsides wasnt it Holden that started the whole superior power/weight ratio thingo with the torana.
yea it might make good even racing but i dont see it being as much of a ford/holden thing as it used to be.
Heck the "drivers" now dont even need to show their skill in getting around the slower corolas etc from the other production racing classes on the mount now

The sucess of the series can be judged by the no of people attending. 180000 on race day, still traffic jams mid morning monday.
When they tried the 2lts nobody turned up
Cheers Pete