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Originally Posted by Mark0994
The funding problems
http://www.touringcartimes.com/2016/...urotech-drive/
This is becoming so stupid. Every event there are drivers who don't have funds.
Tja said on BTCC 2017 that you need 700.000 Euros for two cars.
In TCR International you can run around the world with three cars for 500.000... |
Those weren't accurate figures, just a rough guess.
Costs are still high though, car prizes are capped at 200.000£ without engine as far as I know. No idea how that's divided over the 5 years or so that they're used. And of course if you build your own cars, that prize may well be higher, then there's development costs, actual running costs etc.
While costs are high, the variety of competitive cars is huge and 30 cars are still a very good grid. TCR doesn't have that variety yet, only SEAT Sport, Kissling (which isn't ready yet) and JAS are actually capable of producing a significant number of cars for teams to buy and prizes have already gone up a bit. The BTCC is in a pretty comfortable situation at the moment as it can watch how TCR develops. Even if it lost another five cars, the grid would still look alright.
A shame to lose Lloyd, he was really impressive. Have to admit, I didn't notice Smiley too much. Hard to impress in an average car though.