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That being said, I must say that I’m really disappointed with the NGTC subframe approach. I understand the rationale — to standardize a part of the car that, due to inherent design compromises found in low-end production cars, had always created a huge cost point to make race ready, thereby making it cheaper to go racing, and to make the cars more closely competitive. But I feel that such an approach completely undermines the purpose of production based racing altogether.

The whole idea should be that you are pitting factory cars against one another and that they are all allowed a similar, relative degree of modification, which ultimately allows for the manufacturers to duke it out, thereby proving that their unique recipe is better than the other guy’s. If you eliminate the inherent design compromises and/ or strengths found in the road cars, you basically end up with a race to see which manufacturer can build the neatest looking obsolete unibody. That’s lame. I want to see mac struts vs. multi link. I want to see turbo vs. naturally aspirated. I want to see RWD vs. FWD, etc. But most importantly, I want to see each manufacturer attempt to highlight their own entry’s benefits as a road car by showing what can happen when pushed to the edge. By taking away all that makes the cars unique, for better or worse, you lose any association with the road cars and you might as well not use a unibody chassis at all.