Bmw In V8 Supercars

[benm]

What could they do to the supercar series to make it more interesting?

The same as any category, just make it rain!

[Roy]

But not only was the racing pretty awful so was the telecast on seven (you'd get an hour squeezed in between the football or failing that on after the late movie on a Sunday night ie 10.30 start). People should remember that there used to be one race of less than an hour on Sunday with only qualifying on Saturday. So there is much more actual racing nowadays. Added to that there were relatively few cars - the 1992 rounds for Tassie and WA had maybe a dozen entrants.

The legacy of group A is the great cars it generated. The racing was ordinary & the set up unsustainable once it lost manufacturer support. V8's for all its faults has atleast allows more teams to prosper and is actually less dependent on the manufacturers than group A.

Yeh, I remember I had to record the Lakeside rounds and watch them later as I was not allowed to stay up that late to watch the 10.30pm race telecast, ditto F1

The Mike Raymond/Moffat thing wasnt too bad and I really like Mark Oastler, they use to give coverage to the Sports Sedans and FFs in the later years of GrpA. But Channel 7 didnt do a great job of telecasting it and so many rounds where you would struggle to get ten credible cars.

And i hear what Nee-San says about overtakes etc, i used to love AJ and Larry, as from memory they were the only ones that turned on good racing (Longhurst had plenty of memorable drives too) but the Bathurst quali shootouts were always something special to watch. And I agree they are more fun to watch years later then I think they were at the time. V9s have spoiled us, but agree a little more variety in cars would help, but look at all the other series that have come and gone globally since Grp A! The V8s have done pretty well compared to all the other series that have imploded

[djr81]

Yeh, I remember I had to record the Lakeside rounds and watch them later as I was not allowed to stay up that late to watch the 10.30pm race telecast, ditto F1

The Mike Raymond/Moffat thing wasnt too bad and I really like Mark Oastler, they use to give coverage to the Sports Sedans and FFs in the later years of GrpA. But Channel 7 didnt do a great job of telecasting it and so many rounds where you would struggle to get ten credible cars.

And i hear what Nee-San says about overtakes etc, i used to love AJ and Larry, as from memory they were the only ones that turned on good racing (Longhurst had plenty of memorable drives too) but the Bathurst quali shootouts were always something special to watch. And I agree they are more fun to watch years later then I think they were at the time. V9s have spoiled us, but agree a little more variety in cars would help, but look at all the other series that have come and gone globally since Grp A! The V8s have done pretty well compared to all the other series that have imploded

There was a time when I would have hapilly have shot Mike Raymond - the useless fat fk. But in hindsight maybe he wasnt as annoying as his commentary. He did some good work keeping alive the broadcast of motorsport in Aus. At one point there channel 7 didnt even want to telecast the ATCC. Just Bathurst. Hell the 89 (?) Sandown 500 was shown on the ABC because no one else was interested. For that matter the Aaaaab did a pretty good job of telecasting the early 80's Group C stuff. Most of it is now being sold by Chevron on DVD's.

Most of what I remember of Longhurst was that you could just about set your watch for the time into the race when he would punt Bowe off into the boonies.

You are right though. Compared to just about every other touring car series the V8's are going great. I mean they are entertaining bids for the ownership of it running into tens of millions of dollars. Madness.