My thoughts about the Gen 3 for what they are worth.
To be honest I am still trying to work out why there is such a big deal over paddle vs stick shift. I know that there was a similar debate when things switched from the H pattern to the sequential box and now I suspect that a number of people would not care that much about it. Supercars are trying to promote a new generation of cars however, the issue that I see it is that there is just a big pile of uncertainty about what the finished product will be.
I fully acknowledge that the old idea of win on Sunday sell on Monday is never going to happen and that the final product will be unlikely to look much like the road going version that they are based on. However, Supercars keep pushing this message that the racing will be closer than ever and the inevitable parity word then raises its head.
The Parity discussion is one that I hate. The absolute reality is that unless every single car is made exactly the same by the same people and everything down to the last nut a bold is the same there is always going to be a difference in cars. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Some cars will suit some tracks better than others and vice verse. That is no difference with the current generation of cars. There are some tracks that suit the Holden badged cars and there are others that suit the ford badged cars.
The cars are unlikely to be cheaper to make despite any claims that are being made about this. The reality is that teams will look for a way to build fasters cars within the rules. That is the whole point of the good race teams, they look for ways or loopholes within the rules to build the fastest car possible and to win races. To suggest anything else simply ignores the reality of the point of racing. Teams looking for these advantages will spend as much as they are able to within their budgets to find these gains.
my thoughts anyway for what they are worth.
