{"id":2564,"date":"2013-03-18T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T08:18:53","slug":"some-v8-competition-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/some-v8-competition-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Some V8 competition at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last!&nbsp; I can see some wider interest building in the V8 Supercars, particularly for those of us who enjoy a V8 rumble that\u2019s not necessarily burbling from underneath the bonnet of a Holden or Ford.&nbsp; For over a decade, Holden and Ford have been the two marques battling it out for supremacy in the V8 Supercars Championship.&nbsp; Thankfully, the pin has been pulled on only allowing Ford and Holden to race in this championship and we\u2019re going to see other cars entering into a very competitive V8 racing series.<\/p>\n<p>Nissan has had big success in past years when the regulations for the racing allowed Turbo power and AWD.&nbsp; The Nissan GTR cleaned up in the early nineties.&nbsp; Authorities changed the format soon after Nissan\u2019s success, only allowing Class A racing to encompass Australian-produced Holden and Ford 5.0-litre V8s to race each other.&nbsp; Class B racing included 2.0-litre cars that observed the FIA Class II Touring Car regulations.&nbsp; In my view, the spectacle was never quite as good.&nbsp; I enjoyed watching Volvo\u2019s and Commodores battling it out alongside a BMW 635 CSi, M3 and Jaguar \u2013 to name a few of the cars involved in what was a highly entertaining series.&nbsp; I guess, that just shows my age!<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed, and CotF (Car of the Future) is the naming for the new Class A racing format for 2013.&nbsp; The welcome changes in regulations have now loosened to open the door to other car manufacturers that are RWD, V8s that are based on a current four-door sedan shape which is a production model.<\/p>\n<p>So who\u2019s joining the racing party, which has now started?&nbsp; Mercedes are racing their Erebus Motorsport V8 racing car that\u2019s based on the E-Class sedan.&nbsp; Race 1, The Clipsal 500 Adelaide, had Tim Slade finish 15<sup>th<\/sup> for Mercedes.&nbsp; Race 2, on the same track, had Lee Holdsworth finish 17<sup>th<\/sup> for Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mercedes-v8-supercar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2565\" alt=\"mercedes-v8-supercar\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mercedes-v8-supercar-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nissan have their V8 racing car which is based on the Nissan Altima four-door sedan.&nbsp; Race 1 had Rick Kelly finish 11<sup>th<\/sup> for Nissan, while Race 2 had James Moffat finishing 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nissan-alitma-v8-supercar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2566\" alt=\"nissan-alitma-v8-supercar\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nissan-alitma-v8-supercar-300x181.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Craig Lowndes finished race 1 in first place seated in the cockpit of a Holden Commodore race car, while race 2 had Shane van Gisbergen place first in another Commodore.&nbsp; At present, Holden dominate the standings.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard rumours of Lexus entering the championship, and wouldn\u2019t it be good to see a BMW back in the competition, again.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up with the racing action at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.v8supercars.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.v8supercars.com.au<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi-next.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi-next.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last!&nbsp; I can see some wider interest building in the V8 Supercars, particularly for those of us who enjoy a V8 rumble that\u2019s not necessarily burbling from underneath the bonnet of a Holden or Ford.&nbsp; For over a decade, Holden and Ford have been the two marques battling it out for supremacy in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14976,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/14976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}