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Originally Posted by Matt K
JST as a cup for rookies was much more reasonable as it is with Rookie of the Year in NASCAR for example. New rules are a bit messy, completely unnecessary. Why should we recognize drivers who've never made it to the podium and give them some trophies? For being the best of the worst? Illogical.
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You're overthinking this. Yes, backmarkers will be eligible for this, but they aren't going to win the trophy. You still have to beat all the other eligible drivers consistently, and if a genuine rookie isn't consistently not only beating the likes of Lines and Depper, then perhaps they shouldn't be in the BTCC.
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Originally Posted by pimmy
They've just turned it into a charity class. Totally unnecessary. This isn't GT racing.
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No they haven't. Think about who benefits from this rule change.
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Originally Posted by steve_r
A separate trophy for Rookies against perennial back markers doesn't exactly inspire. I would rather see just the rookies battle it out for this, even if there is only a handful of them.
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What if there's only one or two of them? Give someone a trophy for being the only rookie? Or being the least bad of two?
If you don't have half a dozen rookies, then how valid is any rookie championship really?
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Originally Posted by steve_r
So say a rookie comes in a gets pipped to this trophy by someone who has been in the series for years - lets say Martin Depper (I have nothing against him BTW), then this really makes me wonder if they have this setup right?
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But Depper isn't going to win this.
If it had been in place this year it would have gone to Epps - he's only in his second season, and wasn't far off Sutton to win the JST in 2016.
This gives talented drivers, like Epps, Hill and Whorton-Eales, who don't have the opportunity to race for BMR or WSR, a reason to stay in the BTCC instead of going to do something else.