I have spoken to a few members in regards to Ford pulling their sponsorship from several teams and maybe altogether in the next year or two. Maybe FoMoCo aren't as stupid as many of us think they are, although their decision to support the teams they did still riles me a bit.
Why should Ford put money into a series that has absolutely nothing to do with selling road cars, the days of win on Sunday and sell on Monday have nothing in common with V8 supercars.
If Ford should pull out altogether I doubt it would have very little effect on their sales so why pump money into something that has no real benefit.
Ford have no say in V8 Supercars, unlike Holden who used to threaten to quit the series every time something didn't go their way or Wankingshaw didn't get his tag "never to be trusted" removed form official records.
The cars are nothing like what any of us could buy so who cares what badge, bonnet shape or rear spoiler goes on a shell. To let another manufacture come into to the series is simply to allow them to stick their own badge on, cut and shut their panels to fit a shell and fit a unique rear spoiler, no big deal really. Yes there is more to it than that but seriously how much different would the car really be underneath?
Ford must think as much of VESA as most of us do. How the hell can Cockbrain and his cronies spend so much time and effort on project blueprint to make the series as even and contrived as possible but then allow Holden to buy its way to the top with an unlimited budget. V8 Supercars was all about Holden V's Ford, there appears to be rules in place to keep the series as even as possible except for the most important one, keeping the ratio of Holden to Ford as even as possible. What are they going to do at next years at AGP, makes a farce of the Manufactures Challange now doesn't it?
We can all see that the series is dying, from 55 cars when V8 Supercars first started to teams having to pre qualify and now to the stage that VESA have to buy back the licenses because bugger all people want them. Then we have to listen to Cockbrain put his BS spin on "we only wanted <s>36</s>, <s>32</s> <s>30</s> 28 cars on the grid anyway". Next it'll be we only wanted a Commodore Cup series, well he has just about got that now.
I'll support DJR in whatever series they compete in, but once they decide they've had enough so will I.
