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Originally Posted by CamaroFred
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V8 Supercars is a racing series under the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Meanwhile, Sprint Cup/Monster Energy Series is run by the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).
It like saying that the IndyCar Series is the same as Formula 1 (another FIA series). It's not. The cars may look similar but thats about all that they have in common.
Each sanctioning body has its own set of rules that the cars running in it have to abide by. And those rules have very little to do with what the production cars are. Bodies, wheelbases, and track widths are shrunk and stretched in order to fit templates. Any resemblance to a normal production car exists because thats better for the marketing departments that help fund the racing series, not because the racecars are derived in any meaningful way from their showroom counterparts.