Yeah, it sucks, but modern racing requires OEM involvement and at least one manufacturer (Hint: It's Nissan) wants their race cars to at least use the same configuration as their street cars. It's really kind of silly, but it's also how NISMO gets the check-writers at home office to keep the money coming and the…

Bathurst 12 Hours = Australian GT series (GT3 and entry-level touring cars) race, held in February.

Within a couple years, Peugeot would invent the DOHC engine for grand prix racing and whip the crap out of cars with four times the displacement to disprove it.

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If you haven't seen it, the whole race was nuts, but the last run from a full-course caution was maybe the best racing of the year.

The 12H was the weekend before V8 Supercars' official test day. Lowndes was in the winning Ferrari, SVG closed the race in a McLaren and was spectacular.

I have to wonder what Holden's V8 Supercars entries—if they even decide to follow that path—will look like once they stop building their own cars. Holden Camero [sic]?

Nissan and Mercedes are not particularly thrilled with the series either since Nissan wanted a couple of its drivers to race GT-Rs in the Bathurst 12-Hour GT race, but V8S deliberately scheduled their preseason testing for the same weekend and then mandated that drivers had to be there for every session.

This is as good of answer as I found in a few minutes.

Outstanding! I figured someone somewhere had calculated points using IndyCar's system (which I think works pretty damn well) and am glad you posted that.

Ratings are not up; they're down a bit (though not not significantly from last year). At best, NASCAR is experiencing stasis. Removing grandstands from Daytona and a couple of other venues suggests their ticket sales aren't up, either.

"Case in point." If you're going to make a malapropism, at least make it funny.

Results may vary.

I'd never thought about it that way. I know all about the Offy (::heavy breathing::) and knew that he'd aped the Pug design for Miller, but I somehow had never thought about the direct lineage.

It's called the Euro V8 Series now, but the cars are almost all the same as the old SuperStars. Here's the first round this year.

Maybe this GIF is better.

Is it a bit odd that Finnbar the Administrating Burnin8r is a partner in Smith & Williamson, who is also CrowdCube's accounting firm? Maybe I'm overthinking it and maybe I'm cynical, but this sure seems like a massive PR scheme for CrowdCube rather than using "investor" money to court a potential buyer.

Not a factory effort, but Mitsubishi is rallying in 2015.

You can get C5 Corvettes for under $15,000 easily anymore.

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