Announced on the 4.00pm news that Tripple 8 will go with Holden in 2010. Official announcement is to be made tomorrow!

That will make a huge difference, theyll just have to change the headlights and tailights, oh and maybe a stick on badge here or there.

James

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You only have to be in front at the end of the race.

Itll just further prove that its all about the team running the cars, not the "car" itself. I still dont mind V8 Supercars as a racing category, and as a lovers of real cars we need a premier V8 category of racing (i say it should be drag racing) but it has nothing to do with Ford vs Holden. See the same with Nascar in the states.

i would have thought the V8s would have had a more positive reception amongst people who love their cars

I dont think we hate racing, the vibe I get is that we are over the V8 supercar formula. Going back through history you will see that all formulas have changed periodically, we have had several changes here in the 45 years that Ive been interested.
Maybe they need to allow more brands in or change the rules or invent a new formula, greater minds than mine know the answer.

V8 Supercars suck, its like watching paint dry and just as exciting. Supercars at Bathurst is the same as dumping Aussie Rules and taking up Grid Iron.

Its about time we got back to the essence of Bathurst, bring back Production car racing as it once was. As built straight from the showroom floor to the race track. Now that would be something worth watching.

Hi Guys.

Too many negative comments here. They are getting good crowds, so somebody must be watching them. My only complaint is that they are too quiet at the track. Take the mufflers off, that will improve it 200 %.

Ive been watching touring cars since the 60s & I agree that it has become a little dull, but they are tinkering around the edges. The soft compound tyre used in some of the sprint races this year has helped considerably.

I think the real problem is that the performance of the cars is too close, any car in the top 20 could win. In years gone by it was only the top 5 or so.

These teams all spent huge $$ trying to win & its just the best combination of car, engineer & driver on the day who wins. At the moment its 888 & HRT on top & daylight 3rd. In the 90s it was DJR & Seton etc.

Its a free country, if you dont like it, watch something else, there is plenty out there for everybody.

Dr Terry.

Yep, you young guys have missed out in that regard, but my neighbour who is well into his eighties reckons he has lived through the best times, so I guess we all look back seeing just the roses.

I really dont know what the answer to this particular dilemma is. Car racing these days needs lots of cash, investors want tangible returns and control. There must still be a quid in it otherwise it would be a memory.

Exposure is the name of the game and 2 makes of nearly identical cars should bring exiting racing, couple that with the pace car pulling the field together and producing all that lovely advertising clumped into viewers screens, but for me it falls flat, sameness squared.

Like Byron I used to watch Bathurst from go to whoa and remember lots of the great moments along the way such as Bill Browns rollover, Brockys chats to the viewers while he was breaking lap records in the wet, KBs big ad for Ch9 on Ch7, Dickys rock, the blokes who always went close, heartbreak, victory, it was sweet it was exciting it was unfolding right in front of you... mate you were hooked and glued.

Now I dont watch it because it is not as exciting anymore, the more ad than show thing kills me and the pace car takes all the grit out of it, drivers work hard for nothing... sorry, but I do want to see my hero win by six laps, change cars if his carks it and I do love the staged one two finish, hell, I even agreed with Jims description of the assembled throng after Godzilla had done the deed.

OK, Ill go have a bex a cup of tea and a good lie down.

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Being a young one i would like to see some older style racing, i think the Holden Vs Ford is a good idea though. To me seeing a Toyota in there would put me of V8 supercars. when i was about 9 i remember watching Skaife run around in his VX, winning:):) that was good to watch.

I watched my second Bathurst in 92 was it? Saw Skaife and Richards "win" in the wet thanks to the red flag ruling. Sadly it was one of the last great moments at Bathurst, although there have been some highlights since, but not of the scale of times past.

I wish i was around for the glory days. But for now i can pacify myself with some Biante and historic racing.

Production car racing isdull and tedious these days. Not because theyre not fast, but because theyre so slow compared to the race cars that were meant to relate them to.

Back in the day, the bathurst cars were pretty much the fastest sedans you could see, and they were production. Now production racing is like watching turtles on a bad day, when compared the many, many sedan based classes of race car we can watch.