I joked with Johnny that I called Brazilian Stock Cars as "BTM." Granted I don't know the German word for "Brazilian" (and I don't), the cars and racing still look like the DTM series in Germany. Is that a bad thing? Not at all. I respect DTM.
Now as for the Peugeot 307, just too bad it didn't surpass the awesome 206 WRC in the rally ranks. This 307 Brazilian Stock Car looks pretty nice. I don't think the numbers on Brazilian Stock Cars don't have as big of numbers as most American stock cars. Shoot. In that series, the driver's number is perhaps more important than the specific car. How do you think people are able to know who the late Dale Earnhardt Sr. from some other car? Simply because he's the #3 Goodwrench Chevy. Not to mention that he established himself in the racing world. So you had to show some respect when you faced the black and silver #3 coming out of Turn 4. And I doubt that all the 307 Stock Car drivers will have that big "307" plastered across like on this specific machine. I hope the 307 can compete at tracks like Interlagos, Brasilia, and places like that. That's even if they want to compete at the Buenos Aires F1 course in Argentina.
This series is pretty hot from what I've seen. Johnny is our Brazilian Stock Car man. I got respect for him and the Brazilian Touring Cars. This series is only getting better with these extra entries. They seem to have better diversity in different automobiles than America's NASCAR series, which is mostly of American and American-made automobiles. You Brazilian Stock Car folk have stuff like the Lancer and this 307 racing in the series. It's more diverse. I have a small question, though. Most of us American racing fans with NASCAR don't really like seeing stuff like Toyota in the NASCAR scene simply because this is an American motorsport made for American fans and American cars. Does Brazil sort of have the same prejudice with all these different makes of cars, or are they more respectful of other brands?
Next race of the 2006 Season will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Don't know which course they'll use tough. Sometimes this site puts some videos with highlights of the races:
http://paginas.terra.com.br/esporte/thiagoene/
The one it's avaiable for download is from the last race at Tarumã.
Enjoy.
Oh, and here it's exactly the same as in Nascar. Even if sponsors change people know that #3 Car is Chico Serra, #9 is Giuliano Losacco, #0 is Cacá Bueno,...
Chevrolet, Ford and Volkswagen are the ones that made motorsport in Brazil a reality.
Chevrolet with the Opala, Omega, Vectra and lately the Astra Sedan and S-10 pickup.
Ford with the Maverick, Escort, Verona, Fiesta. These days they only support F-Truck, although some use people the Ford Ranger on the pickup championship.
Volkswagen with the Voyage, Gol, Apollo, and recently the Bora.
Companies like Renault, Peugeot, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Porsche, Maserati started supporting motorsport only recently, like 5 years ago.
Renault has Clio Cup, Super Clio Cup, and F-Renault
Peugeot has it's own rally championship with the 206 and next year the 307 Stock Car
Mitsubishi always supported the rallies and joined the Stock Car with the Evo VII "body".
Subaru also always supported rallies.
Porsche and Maserati have their own championships, the GT3 Cup Challenge and the Maserati Trofeo.
Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Scania, Volkswagen and Iveco also support F-Truck Championship.
We think here that more brands is better.
so, what would 5.7L be in cubic inches? I don't think that measures out to 358ci, as 5.7L is a fairly common truck engine in America and as I understand it, absolutely no main-stream "big three" or European manufacturers use 358ci motors. It's interesting to see that these cars do have carbs. I guess that just allows the officials some ease when they are trying to control performance (same reason NASCAR won't go over to FI.) Once electronics get involved some advantages can be brought upon certain cars... though I've not seen a lot of problems with that in pro motorsport.
