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Originally Posted by coffinpilot
I don't think UK would ever go with Kumho.
Almost everybody involved in TCR UK has a connection with BTCC one way or another (apart from drivers) and the Goodyear connection wouldn't be broken.
I read an interview with someone from TCR UK who said something like - we know everybody at Goodyear, we can phone them, or go and see them any time during the day, we wouldn't give that up.
Also, the teams are unhappy, very unhappy for having to pay an extra £2500 for hard tyres just for Thruxton - their budget is that tight.
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I was not suggesting they would
The point i am making is that TCR world tour should not have its own tyre supplier if the premise is them racing with the other TCR series. That was the concept
The first 3 races of this year TCR world tour are stand alone events. They might as well just bring back WTCR