Bit late to the Gen 3 supercars party here but thought I'd chuck my thoughts in. I went to the Newcastle event - very well managed but must be a pain for the locals. To be fair I mostly wanted to see the historic racers but had a bit of interest in the new cars. They certainly make a spectacle. They are loud and fast and sound like V8s. The downside is the marketing. The commentary was heavily loaded with guff about "if you were a holden person, now you're a Chev person" and loads of rubbish about Holden V Ford which if you have been following motorsport in Australia for the last 40 years has only ever really been true for short periods of time. Sure the 1970s were Holden V Ford and the 1990s got side-tracked by that, but there were lots of times where we had a real mix of makes. To me the big failing of Gen 3 is the telecasts. I was keen to watch them on the TV at the formula 1, but you had to have Foxtel and we got rid of it years ago. Not even sure if the Perth round is going to be on Channel 10 but it seems unlikely as they are only showing a few rounds. At this rate, I think I'd rather follow the Trans-Am series as its still fake cars but you have a couple of Dodge Challenger shapes thrown in and the racing looks a bit wilder even if the cars aren't as fast as the Gen 3 supercar. Every step they made since the "car of the future" has basically been backwards. Nobody really gives a hoot about Ford V Holden and even if they do, those guys are not buying new cars they are waiting for them to show up under $5k on Gumtree. Nothing about that level of motorsports is anything like the grass roots competitors that used to show up at Bathurst and have a credible chance. You will never see the kind of racing again that happened back then and maybe that is a bit sad (imagine a privateer like Murray Carter homologating the XD Falcon equivalent today?). Ford and GM were always a bit iffy about their involvement and since neither really have a stake in Gen 3 in any meaningful sense (except *maybe* the Mustang) Gen 3 looks like an anachronism that has been far better done in Trans-Am. It's a real shame. As I said, the Newcastle event was a great spectacle but there is no real narrative to a season without the clashes of personality and scrappiness of the top level of touring car racing in the 1970s and 1980s. It's gone, it's not coming back, we should move on I guess. added photo of gen 2 car in bits after a smash at Newcastle