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'''Motorsport'''
In his [[Incredibly Lame Pun|autobiography]], Murray Walker mentioned that touring car racing is basically a religion in Australia – with the caveat that our touring cars aren’t the delicate, high-revving 4-cylinder jobs Europeans associate with the term "touring cars", but [[Rated "M" for Manly|big, heavy, angry, low-revving V8s]] that frighten old ladies and generally make blokes talk like [[Home Improvement|Tim Allen]]. We call these beasts the '''V8 Supercars''', shorthand for "is a taxi faster than a police cruiser?"
The [[Spiritual Successor]] to the old Australian Touring Car Championship, the series is realistically just NASCAR with road circuits instead of roundabouts, though it has overcome its reputation as a sport for knuckle-draggers and is actually reasonably exciting and fun to watch. Since Australia is a land of two choices, the V8s come in either [[Arch Enemy|red (Holden) or blue (Ford)]], and your allegiance to one or the other is expected to be absolute and uncompromising. Mention that your favourite brand is BMW, for example, and you’ll be thought of as a wanker at best, and a traitor to your country at worst. Wistful recollections about ‘Godzilla’ (the Nissan Skyline R32), however, are acceptable - doubly so, since the announcement that Nissan will once again field entrants in the championship from the 2013 season!
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