[BTCC] BTCC 2017 Rumours & Silly Season

[Sodemo]

Originally Posted by BLiTZ

Personally, I don't think Clios are quite enough of a feeder for the BTCC. Sure they promote close racing but they don't share the size and bulk of a top tier touring car. You may be able to go four abreast in a Clio, but it doesn't necessarily play out as well in an NGTC car as we've seen in recent seasons!

Back before the BTCC cannibalised the production car cup in 2000 to bolster the grids, you had a series running cars the same size as super tourers just with less power and grip, from what I can remember of the highlights that Channel 4 used to show of the old Powertour package the racing was great!

I think we need another high profile Grp N series (or whatever the equivalent spec is today) in order to give upcoming drivers experience of bigger cars, with different characteristics rather than a one-make series that doesn't quite promote such skills.

I would love to see another proper tin top, saloon or hatch support series on the BTCC bill. I think they kinda attempted something like that last year with the aborted attempt to run the older NGTC machinery as some kind of BTCC feeder, but it never took off due to lack of interest. I think the problem is there is that you have nearly the same running costs but without the media exposure of the main BTCC series, probably doesn't make sense from a financial / sponsor viewpoint.

TCR is practically that, a much cheaper saloon / hatch series, probably a little slower than NGTC but about 1/3 of the cost.