Tracks range from street circuits in Adelaide to more permanent road courses at Phillip Island. The category is commercially successful and highly competitive, with races all over Australia, one in New Zealand, and in 2005, the first race in China. During race meetings, teams are allocated a set number of tyres for the entire weekend.
During the year, there are large restrictions on the number of testing days, along with the number of tyres used during those days. A standard "aerodynamic package" of spoilers and wings is supplied to the teams, and is tested so the two makes have as similar aerodynamic characteristics as possible. A "control tyre" is supplied to all teams. Basic front suspension configuration is similar to the road cars, whilst rear suspension is a " live axle" design, and spring and damper design is unrestricted. Engines are restricted to 7500 rpm, and in this configuration most of the cars put out around 450 kilowatts of power. Both Ford and Holden engines are based on racing engines from their respective US parent companies. Engines are 5.0 L V8 with pushrod actuated valves and electronic fuel injection.
The cars are based on either Commodore or Falcon production bodyshells, but from there almost every component is modified and some (such as differentials and gearboxes) are identical in all cars in the category. The regulations are designed to balance the desire for technical competition and fast vehicles with the requirement that costs are kept reasonable, racing is reasonably close, and the cars bear some resemblance to production models.
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In its early days, it ran in opposition to the "official" super-touring category, which ran cars under the international regulations, but gradually the bulk of sponsorship, driver talent, and fan attention drifted to the V-8 category leaving the super touring as an amateur category. International touring car regulations seemed destined to preclude the Australian-built Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon, to the disappointment of a majority of fans who had watched a long history of Ford-Holden battles in Australian touring car categories since the 1960s. The V8 Supercar is a category of touring car racing that evolved in Australia in the early 1990s.
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