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What’s so good about this new Gen3?Bring on Gen3.
Next major event is the B12hr on Feb 5 2023.
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The cars have more modern engines, less downforce, are more appealing to look at, less opportunity for cheating, cheaper to run and close to 50% of each brand.
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A bit slower as they have less downforce to make passing easier and the racing more interesting.
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Hydrogen-powered Toyota HiLux prototypes to be built in the UK
Toyota’s UK division is using parts from the Mirai – and more than £5.6m ($AU10.1m) in government funding – to turn the HiLux into a hydrogen vehicle.
www.drive.com.au
that allows for incremental cheating or "rule adjustment"
while I was an ardent Holden supporter for some years now the cars have had no relationship other than name with cars you actually drove on the road.
Call me a dinosaur but I liked the days of "win on sunday, sell on monday"
Win on sunday, sell on monday is the bathurst 6hr production car race in April.
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yes BUT its not the Big Race nor is the Bathurst 12hour for those with money for a supercar ferrari, benz or mclaren.
My point is car racing apart from a makers name no longer bears any resemblance to brand it purports to represent.
even the new mustang and camaro will be only fiberglass shells over a custom standard chassis more than likely so apart from looks and an engine they are the same.
Agree, it's all just about entertainment and personally I have disliked the supercars category since it's inception, the whole idea was simply to give holden somewhere to win by banning the likes of the nissan GTR and ford sierras.
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