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Originally Posted by KA
The main conflict of interest from Schnitzer getting too closely involved with anyone's BTCC campaign is that as an official BMW factory-backed team, they'd be risking interfering with the BMW GB-backed Prodrive team's championhip hopes....Arguably, Ford's failure to avoid a similar situation (Eggenberger's BTCC visits and Rouse's TT win) contributed to both championships, BTCC and ETCC going BMW's way....
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That's true KA, but in the Ford situation, Rouse wasn't an official Ford Works Team, so they couldn't be told to let Eggenberger win the TT. (Probably then a spiteful reaction to send Eggenberger cars to the BTCC and take points away from Rouse. This is the sort of problem you get when Manufacturers become involved with championships that also include very capable non-works teams...)