Saturday, November 10, 2018

What's instore for 2019?

Have wings, will fly.
Okay, I know we still have a few F1 and Supercar races to be run but it would seem for Supercars at least we will see big changes, but what changes? Well the biggin' will be the introduction of the Ford Mustang or something that will look a little like one. I mean, just who are they trying to kid?
What we will see is some plastic panels stretched over the chassis and roll cage of a second gen supercar, not quite a new-breed Mustang GT. This is why the thing will look a bit wonky. Oh, and did I mention the dicky wing we seem to need to keep the rear wheels on the deck. What ever happened to the bag of sand in the boot?
Unless the Kelly gang can keep the funding up we could see the Altima go the way of the short lived Mercedes and Volvo's. Talk is that the current Holden/Opel's will be replaced by the GM Camaro's in 2020, no doubt these will also get the deformed plastic body like next years Mustang's. That and be another year behind in aero development.
I see quite a few Mustang GT's around the streets and they look fantastic, the big five litre grunters. They look every bit a Supercar. The current V8's are loosing ground fast, really fast, little FTA TV, no driver superstars other than perhaps young Scotty. Controversial races every round and far too many. Teams really struggling to keep up with the two major teams (as in F1). A rule book you can drive a Tonka truck through and rules for some and not others. that plus a massive lot of disgruntled fans on the verge of being non-fans.
It's time now, today, to wakeup Supercars. If the series was mine season 2019 would be the Mustang verses the Camaro. Put the Altima out to pasture. Make it Ford verses GM in off-the-showroom-floor cars. None of this Gen2 chassis BS. 30 car fields, 15 of each. Tyres? Yes they can use tyres. Same spec power units (the biggest), no aero, just race the bloody things box stock. All us fans want to see is good racing in noisy cars. Well that's option #1, for option #2 how about.. we drop the Dunlop series that no one gets to see (sorry guys) or really gives two hoots for and run the racing sprintcar style where numbers are open. If forty cars front up and qualify the top twenty five run the big show and the others run a left-overs series or a B-Main.
Something interesting, something more interesting than the suggestion of a twilight race for Pukekohe. Oh wow, can't wait. Something drastic has to happen or it's going to fall on it's arse.
F1? Well pretty much same old same old, what yah think? Go the Renault.

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