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This year has turned out politically 'tricky' for TOCA.
Explain...
As Adam says, continuing with two sets of rules has made for a difficult balancing act. Last year was different, Seat came in as a new manufacturer with a backdrop of Vauxhall sweeping all before them - it was in the interests of TOCA (and the series) to encourage another manufacturer in and to see a challenge to Vauxhall - this made it less difficult (IMO) for TOCA to play with the weights more to make Seat competitive.
This year is was in a way unfortunate that two teams decided to invest in building brand new BTC cars - you can understand the reasoning - both TD and VXR had an existing baseline and running gear to work from.
But it leaves less leeway for TOCA to adjust the weight to make the S2000 cars competitive, undoubtedly long time BTCC supporters VXR and TD would rightly point to their heavy investment in new cars being potentially eroded by altering weights of S2000 cars.
The best thing for the BTCC will be the end of BTC regulations and the series running all S2000 cars, it keeps things simple.
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