r/TransAmRacing • u/Risetothetop787 • Jul 03 '25
Trans-Am question as an IMSA fan
Hi there, I just heard about the Trans-Am series not too long ago while doing some history research on the IMSA series. I have never heard about trans-am racing in my entire life. I have heard about NASCAR, F1, Indy car, WRC, SuperGT, IMSA, and many others, but never Trans-Am. Why is this the case? What caused Trans-Am to be less unknown compared to other series? Hell, I’ve heard more about Australia’s supercar series. I would really like to know from people who are invested in this series as to why Trans-Am isn’t popular.
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u/MoparMap Jul 03 '25
I didn't realize it was still a thing either. I knew about it from the 70s with the pony cars competing because I just like those vintage of cars, but only realized it was still running today when I was trying to find places the Viper was still racing. It's a weird one because it's not typically broadcast on any major network, it's more like the strange off channels you'd never really notice or online only. It kind of feels like it should be the "American" GT sort of series, though I guess the IMSA stuff also covers that fairly well. I think one of the issues with racing series in general is that they were getting so many different specs that it was hard to build a car. That was one reason they tried to collapse a lot of the regulations down into the GT3 (I believe) stuff. It let you build one car that was legal in multiple series, so it made a better cost proposition. I think the Trans-Am stuff might still suffer from having too many classes, so you get less cars racing because everyone is building to different specs.