I was bug fan of world speed challenge racing, then... It was like Caddy bought the GT class and Mazda/Honda bought the Touring car class ( oddly, who ever sponsored that race that weekend, ended up winning most the time ).
Yesterday, I got a chance to watch some new prelii (or what ever) world speed challenge racing and it looked pretty good. Awesome mix of cars.
Check it out
Www.world-challengetv.com
Anyway... In the touring car class.... NO TURBO FOCUS, NO TURBO FIESTAS !! Mazda miatas, civic Si, nissan altimas !!! In the slower touring car class ( B-spec ) they had one fiesta, I'm pretty sure a 14 year old boy drives it. But its not an ST (maybe a 3 cylinder turbo? I'm not sure).
Just seems like ford would be all over this... Unless... The focus is too fast for the class and the fiesta would have to be "too restricted" to get a fair shake.
Back when honda/mazda owed the wsc racing series, a few SRT4's were fielded, but they had to run a restrictor before AND AFTER the intercooler to slow them down, while the mazdas/hondas had full on race car gear boxes and giant full race intake manifolds and enjoy'd a huge weight advantage over the srt4 and wrx.
So maybe Ford figures that since its "who ever plays the most wins", they just assume not race? Anyone else know the story or have an idea/theory ?
Yesterday, I got a chance to watch some new prelii (or what ever) world speed challenge racing and it looked pretty good. Awesome mix of cars.
Check it out
Www.world-challengetv.com
Anyway... In the touring car class.... NO TURBO FOCUS, NO TURBO FIESTAS !! Mazda miatas, civic Si, nissan altimas !!! In the slower touring car class ( B-spec ) they had one fiesta, I'm pretty sure a 14 year old boy drives it. But its not an ST (maybe a 3 cylinder turbo? I'm not sure).
Just seems like ford would be all over this... Unless... The focus is too fast for the class and the fiesta would have to be "too restricted" to get a fair shake.
Back when honda/mazda owed the wsc racing series, a few SRT4's were fielded, but they had to run a restrictor before AND AFTER the intercooler to slow them down, while the mazdas/hondas had full on race car gear boxes and giant full race intake manifolds and enjoy'd a huge weight advantage over the srt4 and wrx.
So maybe Ford figures that since its "who ever plays the most wins", they just assume not race? Anyone else know the story or have an idea/theory ?