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Brock hits out at 'short-sighted' Supercars axing - CtrlF.XYZ

Brock hits out at 'short-sighted' Supercars axing

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Phil Brock, the younger member of the precocious Peter Brock, says the departure of Holden from the Supercars Championship whitethorn permission immoderate fans scratching their heads.

Fans person agelong known that Holden would permission the athletics eventually. In 2020, General Motors announced the Australian car institution would adjacent its doors that year.

Following respective delays, Supercars volition present its Gen3 regulations successful 2023, which volition usher successful a new-look Ford Mustang and an all-new Chevrolet Camaro.

The second acts arsenic the replacement for the existent Gen2-specification Holden Commodore, a car nary longer sold connected Australian showroom floors.

The Camaro is different not presently sold domestically successful Australia, but represents General Motors Specialty Vehicles' beingness successful the motoring and centrifugal racing landscape.

For Brock, he's unsure whether dyed-in-the-wool Holden fans volition needfully leap vessel to Chevrolet.

"The occupation astatine the moment, I conjecture is you spell 'okay, this is the past of the Holden thing, what is adjacent twelvemonth going to be?' Because a batch of fans are inactive Ford versus Holden," Brock told Wide World of Sports.

"What are they going to beryllium doing? Maybe it's Chev vs Ford, I don't know, but I conjecture it has to alteration successful immoderate way. I conscionable anticipation it's for the better."

Brock said Holden's demise volition permission a void successful the motorsport landscape.

Ultimately, helium blames a deficiency of knowing from the genitor institution General Motors for the brand's undoing.

"I thought that was a reasonably unwise move," said Brock of General Motors' determination to driblet Holden.

"Holden itself was really inactive rather fashionable successful Australia, I don't deliberation they had a large array of antithetic models of cars for sale.

"Inherently, the Commodore is inactive a precise good thought of car and I thought that due to the fact that of its past and its lasting successful Australia arsenic a concern that the state is beauteous arrogant of. That was a beauteous short-sighted determination to conscionable unopen it down.

"It's a pity. I don't deliberation Chevrolet, oregon General Motors, person ever truly understood that astatine all," helium added.

"I'm a instrumentality of America, I've been determination a fewer times and I emotion their motorsport and the radical I've met implicit determination I truly bask arsenic well, but, successful general, there's a batch of radical who don't recognize Australia astatine all."

Supercars said farewell to Holden astatine this year's Adelaide 500.

Shane van Gisbergen was officially crowned champion, becoming the last Supercars victor successful Holden machinery.

Triple Eight Race Engineering teammate Broc Feeney, named aft the precocious Peter Brock, won the last race of the play carrying a Holden tribute livery astatine the Adelaide 500.

Earlier this year, van Gisbergen and Garth Tander became the last pairing to triumph the Bathurst 1000 driving a Holden.

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