Until the Suzuki GTi Cup. The brainchild of former Adelaide Grand Prix boardmember Bill O'Gorman, the Kumho Suzuki GTi Cup is a one-make motor racing series like no other before it. Still only in its inaugural year, it's already being acknowledged as the breeding ground for new driving talent. Many of the 31 drivers contesting this year's nine rounds might never have found a way into motor sport, were it not for the affordability and user-friendliness of this series' structure. In concept it is probably most like the corporate go-kart days that absorbed so many businesses' compulsory one per cent training levies a few years ago.
Guy turns up at a circuit with a bunch of identical go-karts in the back of a truck.
Bunch of blokes arrive at the track, race their arses off for a day, go home again. Guy puts all the go-karts back into the truck, takes them all back to his workshop until the next time. At the conclusion of the series, the car is his to keep. The fairness and integrity of the series is maintained because the cars are kept away from fiddling fingers and talent-enhancing chequebooks. This they unfailingly do, with an interval of one second typically covering the first dozen screaming Suzis on the grid, two seconds covering at least two dozen.