V8 Saloon Racing

New SCV8 series should spice things up nicely!

By PH Staff / Wednesday, 2 July 2003 / Loading comments

There's a new championship about to be launched and it could fill a nice little niche in the UK race scene.

The last few years have seen the British Touring Car Championship degrade from the heady days of exciting saloon racing into hot hatch racing. Whilst it still draws huge crowds and some good racing there are many who yearn to see big, powerful saloons dicing with each other. Classic saloon racing is alive and well, but there are few contemporary saloons rubbing door handles currently.

That could be about to change with the new SCV8 Supercar Championship. Next year we could see V8 powered, 550bhp rear wheel drive saloons racing.

The formula is in its final stages of prepartion and plans so far are for two races per meeting and will feature popular mid range, four door saloons. The organisers are hoping that the grid of twenty cars will comprise of Jaguars, Audis, MGs, Peugeots, Fords and more.

The regulations will written in a manner intended to keep costs considerably lower than those incurred by the top touring car teams.

The team are planning to run the series on the same billing as the current British GT and F3 tour, no doubt boosting the popularity of that tour considerably. A terrestrial TV package is also planned.