SUPERCARS is wary that the move to randomly allocated engines will not necessarily eliminate claims of uneven equipment by teams and drivers.

From next year, all powerplants will be built by either Herrod Performance Engines (Ford) or KRE Race Engines (Chevrolet).

“Supercars are going to randomly pick the engines, we’ll allocate them to the teams and away they go,” the championship’s head of motorsport, Adrian Burgess, explained.

“There won’t be anyone accusing either of the homologation teams favouring their factory team.

“So we need to build all of these engines, make sure they’re all within a tolerance that we’re comfortable with, and then we’ll randomly select where they go up and down the pitlane.”

That’s not to say engine parity, from unit to unit, will be totally accepted by all.

“If they feel that their engine has lost power or whatever, they’ll talk with their engine builder and they’ll agree or disagree whether that’s the case and then they’ll send that back to Supercars for us to check on our dyno,” Burgess said.

“Our dyno is the ruler, they all come across our dyno, but that will be the first discussion, between those two guys and then it will come back to Supercars.”

Regardless, Burgess is confident that degradation will be minimalised in the Gen3…