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Old 25 Aug 2017, 08:37 (Ref:3761484)   #165
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It is club racing.



BTCC rules are fixed until 2022, so they certainly won't be adopting TCR within five years.



If they were only interested in B2B, they would already be sponsoring club racing.

They are not. They are not even going for the halfway house of club racing with a decent TV package (by which I mean the Clio Cup, Ginetta GT4 Supercup etc).

They sponsor the BTCC because of its profile, which they won't get with TCR, at least not in the short term.

Duo, for example, sponsor BTCC teams primarily to entertain clients in the hospitality. But are those clients going to be as interested in going to a championship they've never heard of?



BTC wasn't Gow's. He'd gone before those regs came in, and he got rid of them pretty much immediately when he returned.
Is that completely true? I remember them talking about the new regs in 1999 when Gow was still in charge...?
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