Earlier WTCC

The World Touring Car Championship had one year in 1987 under Group A rules. But this was just at the time when the Sierra Cosworth and other turbo cars were changing and eventually ruining the formula. Apparently it was a victim of its own success, taking money from F1, so the FIA dropped it.

Group A was used by the French from 1982, British from 1983, Germans from 1984 and Australia and Japan from 1985, but Australia did allow Group As to run in Bathurst 1984 so the lead time here was long.

WI the WTCC started from 1985 and ran for a couple of years? How would this affect Group A, would the turbocars take over of would the rules be massaged to keep them even?
 
There was another proplem with the championship is that most race organisers had lose interpretations of the rule book while others had more strickter interpretations (Bathurst from 87).
 
They were shockers, not only in homologating cars and using illegal stuff but also they way they raced. Europeans thought nothing of bumping rivals off the track and smashing the shock towers out of their cars by hitting the ripple strips, which wasn't done in Australia at the time.
 
They were shockers, not only in homologating cars and using illegal stuff but also they way they raced. Europeans thought nothing of bumping rivals off the track and smashing the shock towers out of their cars by hitting the ripple strips, which wasn't done in Australia at the time.
They still do that have you seen the BTCC it is worse then NASCAR
 
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