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Originally Posted by Sodemo
Stop me if I am wrong here, but didn't the ETCC start off as a super production based championship?
I seem to recall BMW moaning about the update kits for S2000 costing them lots of money in / around 2001/2002...?
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Both yes and no. ETCC started as Euro STC (a merge with the Italian Super Toruing series and the rest of what was left in central Europe) in 2000. In 2001 it became ETCC (divided into two separate classes, ST (super touring) and SP (super production) and was a part of Eurosports "Super Racing Weekend" concept (together with FIA GT and Formula Renault, still remember Augusto Farfus's fantastic season in Formula Renault 2001
). STC was 2 sprint races while SPC was only one longer race. I specifically remember the fights between Duncan Huisman and Peter Kox in their BMW's in Euro SPC, they were really fighting each other all the way
. I have a few races on VHS, good fun to watch even today.