Production Car Racing (GT4, CTSCC, PWC GTS/TC, MX-5 Cup, etc)Touring Cars 

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So the 370Z that were in CTSCC and GTS in 2015 were GT4 cars?
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Close but no. At least in CTSCC since they are just now switching to full GT4 rules.

As far as if they come from Nissan, no idea. Maybe the ones in Europe are built by RJN? But not sure about the others.
 
From the start it was RJN. I remember the 350 didnt have a wing(as most when the series began, but the Lotus Eleven). When the GT wings were Introduced, I remember the RJN on the wing endplates. That was like the next year.
 
I believe its ever only been RJN that has made those GT4-esque Zs
 
twitcher
Not sure if his was posted already, the video is a couple months old now.



Is this a GT4 spec Lexus? It sounds pretty good :)
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Yes it is. :D Believe they're planning a GT4 car. That or we're being fooled by the "track toy" RC-F which is essentially a GT4 car. :P
 
Beautiful car. Have to say, the 570 has become my favorite McLaren. That little 3.8L V8T coupled with the amazing bodywork in both racing and road versions is amazing. Glad one has come to IMSA. :D Maybe a 650S GT3 will come to GTD in the WSCC at some point.
 
Because there's been a lot of GT4 talk in this thread, (and because I still don't know what thread GT4 news should go in...), Competition 102 has put out the 2017 European GT4 Northern Cup schedule today. There are no stand alone events, they will be supporting Blancpain GT, DTM, ADAC GT Masters, and everyone's favorite, the FIA European Truck Racing Championship. :D



In case the tweet doesn't load:

Northern Cup

April 2 - Misano
May 7 - Brands Hatch
June 11 - Red Bull Ring
July 16 - Slovakia Ring
Aug. 20 - Zandvoort
Sept. 17 - Nurburgring

Southern Cup

April 16 - Nogaro
May 21 - Pau
July 2 - Dijon
Sept. 10 - Magny - Cours
Oct. 1 - Barcelona (I'm assuming that's Catalunya)
Oct. 15 - Paul Richard

Southern Cup should just be called the French GT4 Championship...
 
I'm really curious about what the rules about modification were in that series. The commentators mentioned the Vipers were using ACR cylinder heads, larger brakes and ALMS body kits to make them more competitive, so I have to wonder what all was done to the other makes out there.
 
R1600Turbo
Someone needs to start another series similar to this. Stock-ish looking supercars racing door to door? Hell yes.

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So GT4? :P All kidding aside, those Vipers looked a lot more GTS class than stock. Would love a "Stock Supercar" series though, would be rather awesome.
 
All I can remember of Nations Cup was that the cars had to use the engines from their road-going counterparts. Which is why there was so much controversy surrounding the Bathurst 24 Hour winning Monaro 427C's. The series was the result of splitting up the categories within the Australian GT Production Championship into two seperate series. I absolutely loved the Nations Cup's counterpart, the Australian Production Car Championship, of which the remnants exist as a state series (as opposed to a national championship, not sure if the same terminology is used elsewhere) featuring the flagship Bathurst 6 Hour which had its first run earlier this year.

The Nations Cup essentially re-birthed as the CAMS sanctioned Australian GT Championship in 2005 following the collapse of PROCAR. I often look back to see just how far the AGTC has come since those early days with a weird mismatch of cars, to where it is now as one of the most competitive series in the country.
 
EngieDiesel
I'm really curious about what the rules about modification were in that series. The commentators mentioned the Vipers were using ACR cylinder heads, larger brakes and ALMS body kits to make them more competitive, so I have to wonder what all was done to the other makes out there.
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I think the regs were based off the N-GT regs at the time, but there may have been some tweaks.

Cap'n Jack
All I can remember of Nations Cup was that the cars had to use the engines from their road-going counterparts. Which is why there was so much controversy surrounding the Bathurst 24 Hour winning Monaro 427C's. The series was the result of splitting up the categories within the Australian GT Production Championship into two seperate series. I absolutely loved the Nations Cup's counterpart, the Australian Production Car Championship, of which the remnants exist as a state series (as opposed to a national championship, not sure if the same terminology is used elsewhere) featuring the flagship Bathurst 6 Hour which had its first run earlier this year.
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The production car series still has a national series too. Australian Manufacturers Championship (aka AMChamps).
 
GTracer38
The production car series still has a national series too. Australian Manufacturers Championship (aka AMChamps).
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yeah, but it's hardly a national series when all 7 rounds are on the east coast and only 3 outside of Victoria.
 
Australian Production Car racing spread like a highly contagious virus during the mid/late 90's into the new millennium.
What started out as one class with the top blokes all trying to out smart/spend each other, morphed into three seperate classes: GT Production, GT Performance & Nations Cup with regulations regarding allowable modifications being more relaxed as you moved up the chain. Both GT Prod & GT Perf started out sharing the track but with numbers exploding, they got their own races like Nations Cup except for the Bathurst 3hr that ran as a support race to the Supercar 1000km enduro.
As for the exact regulations covering Nations Cup, PROCAR recognised that, in the name of competition, some cars needed more concessions/freedoms than others to have a fighting chance.
Porsche started out using the 911 RS/CS (993), the Vipers were essentially the '99 GTS as found in GT6 & Lamborghini used the Diablo SV. These eventually were replaced by the 911 Cup, Viper ACR & Diablo GTR, spending got out of control, GRM built the 427 Monaros, dominated the Bathurst 24hrs upsetting everyone & PROCAR walked away.
 
twitcher
All of the Honda Civics too :(. Do you think they're all running to PWC?


:D I was hoping we'd get some of those Maserattis and maybe a Lotus Evora or two...but I can live with Astons.
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Maybe they'll come in time. :D

And I think a scramble is being made towards PWC. TC will be shaken up in 2018(or was it 2019?) when the top class of TC becomes TCR, with TCA and TCB becoming top tier grass root classes IIRC.
 
As my favourite series, IMSA needs to figure out CTSCC in a big way. A few years ago it was almost always 55-60+ cars with a healthy 15-20 in the GS field and a ridiculously large ST field.

This past year it was a strong ST field with a completely sporadic GS field (as few as four entries for some events). Now GS has taken off and ST has disappeared. What the jamsickles is going on? I "hope" a lot of teams are moving up the ladder (I see a lot of this happen so I'm convinced there's a decent ladder-progression working out between CTSCC and Weathertech) - but to go from 25-30 ST entries to a mere 9? I hope this is typical early season "We can't make Daytona...but will race later" kind of stuff.

Are people just holding off until TCR regs because it's not worth putting work into a car for one year? ST normally has some superb racing and it'd be a damn shame to miss out on that.
 

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