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Originally Posted by iceman-1987
Tarquini won a race cause he qualified 9th! And all other Hyundai didn't get good result.
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As I mentioned above they were quite quick though not the quickest. A reasonable argument is that they should be the quickest on the tight street circuits as they dominated last year, therefore because they didn't do brilliantly they will struggle the whole year. Only problem is that they won at every circuit bar 3 last year. Just because you won last year due to a favourable BoP doesn't mean you're allowed the nicest BoP again this year.
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Originally Posted by iceman-1987
Tarquini is right to complain and imho it's stupid to give a bop before first race!
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And the reason for the BoP is to reduce cost. If for even 1 race there wasn't BoP then every manufacturer would have to spend so much to be the actual fastest just to gain every tenth making the cars cost way over 130k to make. That would be to just win 1 round and every team serious about the title would spend the money just to be ahead for that 1 round. Then for round 2, 3... whenever the BoP came in the cars would be identical and those who lost out in the first round(s) would already be at a disadvantage because they didn't spend a million pounds for one round. Plus then every privateer running those cars around the world would need to spend on the presumably expensive upgrade.
Running without BoP defeats the point of BoP at which point you just get Super Touring which obviously stayed around for so many years without spiralling costs right?