Hamilton 400
Submitted by Kiwi Bloke on April 26, 2008 2 Comments
The Hamilton 400 was held a couple of weeks ago. Those of you who have grown up down up know of the 40 year old tussle between Holden and Ford that culminates each year at the Bathurst 1000. The series is known as the V8 Supercars. Unlike NASCAR, it has retained since 1960 the Stock car format, which means that the cars must come off a normal factory assembly among many other rules. The upshot is that these cars can be purchased for road use (albeit detuned) from such tuners as Holden Special Vehicles. What this means is that the racing is far more exciting than NASCAR because the cars are real family saloons that we drive to work and the racing is far more visual than what you can expect from a NASCAR race.
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“The series is known as the V8 Supercars. Unlike NASCAR, it has retained since 1960 the Stock car format, which means that the cars must come off a normal factory assembly among many other rules. The upshot is that these cars can be purchased for road use (albeit detuned) from such tuners as Holden Special Vehicles.”
Do you really believe what you wrote above?
If so you’re sadly misguided. For just one example that is representative of all the V8′s is Fujitsu Racing’s car. IT, like all the others in the series doesn’t “roll off” any assembly line and modified for racing, it’s built completely in-house by the race teams.
You really should have the slightest clue about which you write before you hit the publish button.
Sorry you are wrong. V8 Supercars come under the homologation rules of the original CAMS now the Touring Car Entrants Group Australia. The cars MUST come off rolling production platforms, unlike NASCAR.
Each V8 Supercar is based on a current-specification VE Commodore or BF Falcon production bodyshell, with an elaborate roll cage constructed into the shell from aircraft-grade, 2mm thick tubing. In 2007 specifications both the Commodore and Falcon have adopted E-glass front mudguards in place of the production steel items, in order to save costs.
However since 2003 the rules have become even stricter as to the parity between Commodore and Falcon to reduce the respective advantages of the production platform.
However thanks for the comment.