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Originally Posted by LongRat
PLEASE, TC is a very poor example for this. Not when the rules state that cars should be a reasonable replica of a road going vehicle yet homologated bodies incude many that are openly not even trying to be a model of a real car. This is why so many people regard touring as boring, same thing happened to Pro-10, almost killed 1/12th... It shouldn't happen to GT12 too. While the concept may be ok on paper, running heat after heat of Ascaris gets old. Reminds me of the Dodge Stratus.. and now the Mazda 6. I might slap a huge wing on the back and a carbon splitter and run mine as a Ford Escort GT.
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No class has ever died out or been avoided because the body wasn't scale. Pro10 did not die out because of the bodies used, nor did 1/12th numbers drop because of the non scale bodies. If you believe that why did 1/12th pick up again with even less scale bodies. The people who say touring cars are boring would still see it as boring if they had accurate scale bodies as they would then be running with slower motors.
There is a reason there were heat after heat of Stratus and Mazda 6, those were the bodies that worked best. Look at WorldGT, there is a body list of around 20 bodies of various makes, yet everyone uses the Protoform Sophia because that handles the best. That's why you see everyone running an Ascari.
If you want to open the body rules at national level then do what everyone else does and put in a proposal for the AGM, complaining about it on forums isn't going to change the rules. If the majority of racers vote for an open rule then you can run what you want, although it's highly likely you would then end up with a class of GT racers being full of Mazdaspeeds.