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Originally Posted by promax
actually you've asked the question more than once (more like 50 times) obviously the number of drivers competing haven't been announced as the number of drivers competing having been confirmed at this stage.
btw the old gen cars are still part of the championship.. so even if 15 new gen cars don't line up at the 1st round.. it doesn't mean there won't be 15 entrants lined up.
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Well Promax, at least we have worked out that counting was not your best subject at school
I would have thought that in order to be an entrant for the New Generation NZV8 you would have firstly have to buy a chassis from MSNZ (who own the jigs and IP) - so on that basis, it should be pretty straight forward to determine how many chassis have been sold??
The amalgamation of the new and old NZV8 cars to make up the magic 15 entrants in order to constitute a compliant Gold Star Championship Series is not valid. There are two
separate and
distinct championships planned :
See MSNZ President's statement of 6 June "
This season will see the start of the transition from our older NZV8 and the new NZV8 Touring Car. There will be championships for both classes.". Also see MSP media release of 23 May "
The V8 category will be battling for two Gold Star Championships this coming season, one for the current model of Ford and Holden and one for the new generation NZV8 cars."
Each of the classes need to get 15 entrants to qualify for a Gold Star Championship status - you can't orchestrate compliance by adding the entrants of two different classes together.
It would be really good if there could be 15+ New Generation NZV8 cars with star drivers running in the 2012/13 season but so far no-one had made any definitive statements as to how many cars can be realistically expected.