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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
Supercars' ability to anger their only manufacturer is quite amazing!
You'd think racing series would want to keep their manufacturers? Supercars not caring, despite urgent Rushbrook calls for parity action since before the season even started, is quite remarkable...
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May have nothing at all to do with "anger" - but then maybe it does, who knows? Supercars has had cars in the official car program from Holden, Ford, Chrysler, Audi and Porsche before now (there may be others that I don't currently recall) so their "seller fellers" have some work to do on finding another supplier.
There's been plenty of parity action but the one thing that Rushbrook has been keenest on (transient dyno) wasn't do-able before the season (only 1 in Oz not suitable at that stage from the POV of the Supercar crew) but there is now a plan to get the engines on a transient dyno.
Ultimately, whether one or more brands in the series has a manufacturer behind them huffing and puffing (or not) the key stakeholders are the teams and it is the teams that supercars focus on keeping. Supercars has a long, long history of keeping manufacturers at arm's length due to the long history in motorsport world wide of manufacturers coming, then going and leaving a series in the lurch.