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I remember reading in the 2018 thread that the laptimes were more or less comparative with maybe a little over a seconds difference in them.
I don't think there's much doubt that technically TCR cars aren't any less refined, but they were definitely marketed as so when Lotti and the TCR UK organisers promoted the series as a 'feeder' to the NGTC cars.
Given that the World Touring Car Cup uses the same regulations, there's hardly any sense to it. It was promoted towards the wrong crowd from the off.
Breaking the BTCCs dominance in the British market was always going to be hard, but TCR worked elsewhere (Italy and Sweden both being comparable markets) and could have worked with enough ambition.
I don't think it helped the matter as well that neither TCR Int./Europe and WTCR ever considered racing at Brands/Silverstone, and haven't done so for years. To Brits, touring car racing IS the BTCC because that's all that runs here.
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