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The rumoured Texas V8SC race is now confirmed apparently.

Not sure how I feel about this, normally I'm fairly "meh" about American circuit racing, but I'm a little excited about this. Would be great to show the Yanks how it's done!

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Doubt Ambrose will be avaliable, they race somthing like 40 weekends of the year in naaaaaascaaaar. V8SC could learn a lot from that, not having to dump local rounds for overseas rounds (that no one goes to watch)

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Dont you wish V8sc would just invest money here and race? sick of this company sucking the money out of the aussie racing scene..

I wish they would just f**k off and die so we could have a decent touring car championship in Australia.

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The rumoured Texas V8SC race is now confirmed apparently.

Not sure how I feel about this, normally I'm fairly "meh" about American circuit racing, but I'm a little excited about this. Would be great to show the Yanks how it's done!

Nothing wrong with American Circuit stuff...would rather watch this than Supertaxis anyday

http://youtu.be/gS6JUQet5E8

Having watched some NASCAR circut (not oval) racing, i think this'll go down well with the yanks. the NASCAR's (seem) excruciatingly slow around corners, the V8's might liven it up a bit more.

They only seem slow around corners because with 850hp (sprint cup) they makes the straights look very short.

For 1500kg+ cars on skinny tyres and a rear end designed for only turning on banked left handers, they do pretty darn well in the twisties if you ask me

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They only seem slow around corners because with 850hp (sprint cup) they makes the straights look very short.

For 1500kg+ cars on skinny tyres and a rear end designed for only turning on banked left handers, they do pretty darn well in the twisties if you ask me

It's a valid point though, I've often wondered how our V8s would do on a circuit against NASCAR. NASCARs do have more power, but they also have more weight, less sophisticated technology, and don't forget they're running four-speed h-pattern gearboxes. NASCARs also don't have a mandatory rev limit, they can get near 10,000 rpm on their engines. I wonder how much power they'd make if they were limited to 7500 like our V8s?

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I dont know that they have more sophisticated technology, they just use technology to do different things. They are designed to turn the car left corners and sit in a constant rpm for maximum power. My little nascup car is exactly the same, it will hammer left corners faster than i can drive it but soon as i turn right it has no clue how to handle.

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