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<\/a><\/p>\nThe championship returned to a formal parity review structure this season, featuring lap time based triggers.<\/p>\n
Supercars\u2019 system crunches in-race lap time data from cars of each manufacturer on a rolling six-race average.<\/p>\n
The category is required to launch a review if the calculated disparity is outside the stated 0.1s threshold once equated to a 60-second lap.<\/p>\n
Reviews were launched for both the Chevrolet and the Toyota after Taupo, which resulted in changes to the Camaro over the next two rounds.<\/p>\n
Speedcafe understands it also triggered reviews for both cars following Darwin, again requiring Supercars to dig for any technical discrepancies.<\/p>\n
On this occasion the review did not result in any changes.<\/p>\n
Chevrolet was happy with its earlier tweaks while Supercars is not willing to budge on the Toyota while its known engine weakness remains unresolved.<\/p>\n
The parity threshold number is believed to have been reached in the bulk of individual races so far this season.<\/p>\n
Supercars is understood to have already begun sharing ideas for altering the formula with the three homologation teams.<\/p>\n
The earlier changes to the Camaro were controversial as they came just three rounds after off-season wind tunnel testing set the aerodynamic specifications.<\/p>\n
Supercars insists it remains a technical parity formula and is not attempting to apply sporting parity in the style of Balance of Performance.<\/p>\n
Any tweaks to the parity review system would only be implemented for 2027.<\/p>\n
Notably, the current system does not allow parity changes once the Enduro Cup has commenced.<\/p>\n
The Supercars Championship continues this weekend with the NTI Townsville 500, before Perth and Ipswich close out the Sprint Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anton De Pasquale and Macauley Jones at the Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media The championship returned to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,9335,213],"class_list":["post-519183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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