Menu won at Buenos Aires (200 Kms. TC2000)

[Mekola]

Just finished the 200 Kms. of Buenos Aires of Turismo Competición 2000 Series on the Argentine circuit, and the pair MatÃ*as Rossi / Alain Menu won brilliantly on an official Chevrolet Astra. The Argentinean Rossi drove on the first part of the race and did the leap to the lead, and Menu and his finesse did the rest to keep the car on front until the chequered flag. Podium were completed with two Ford Focus, one of the works Berta team, driven by MartÃ*n Basso and Hoover Orsi, and other semi-works car driven by Fabián Flaqué and Tito Bessone.
Six ex-F1 drivers were present on the race: Nicola Larini, Christian Fittipaldi, Luciano Burti, Enrique Bernoldi, Norberto Fontana and Tarso Marques. From European touring cars scheme were too Fabrizio Giovanardi, Robert Huff and Anthony Reid.
Alas, yesterday and today were two racing exhibition of a Williams FW28-Cosworth; the car did may laps on track, tested by Luciano Burti and José MarÃ*a López.

[FIRE]

Nice field of well known drivers.

Is it a single make tubeframe car with different body shells?
Is it a single make engine?
How many bhp have these cars?

I see the lap time at Curitiba is the same as in WTCC.

[Mekola]

TC2000 cars have different engines and uses bodyshells with different tubeframes, albeits pontons and some suspension parts are common on all cars.
Many of the engine tuners of works factory teams are European ones (Sodemo, Neil Brown, Spiess, etc...), except Berta (official Ford team) that they're tuning their own engines. Partially explained because Berta is on a tech level as equal as several European tuners.
TC2000 cars have engines with about 320 bhp.

Originally Posted by FIRE

Is it a single make tubeframe car with different body shells?
Is it a single make engine?

In Argentina is another touring car series with these specifications, that is Top Race V6 series, or TRV6. All cars of that series have the same tubeframe and different bodyshells, and single make engines made by... Berta.

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by Mekola

TC2000 cars have different engines and uses bodyshells with different tubeframes, albeits pontons and some suspension parts are common on all cars.
Many of the engine tuners of works factory teams are European ones (Sodemo, Neil Brown, Spiess, etc...), except Berta (official Ford team) that they're tuning their own engines. Partially explained because Berta is on a tech level as equal as several European tuners.
TC2000 cars have engines with about 320 bhp.

I didn't know there is so many European involvment in TC2000. This means probably it's not really a low tech and cheap championship.
I have seen only a little bit coverage of TC2000 but I get the impression it's a very nice championship because of the large grids and diversity.

Originally Posted by Mekola

In Argentina is another touring car series with these specifications, that is Top Race V6 series, or TRV6. All cars of that series have the same tubeframe and different bodyshells, and single make engines made by... Berta.

I was aware of the single make tubeframe en single make Berta engines in TRV6. It's less populair than TC2000?

[Mekola]

Just to correct - TC2000 cars aren't built on tubeframes, they're based on road car structure.
Argie touring car series with car made by tubeframes are TRV6 and Turismo Carretera.

[FIRE]

That makes TC2000 even better.

Do you know what a TC2000 car costs?