[BTCC] How to improve the BTCC 'product'

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Matt K

I would say that instead of adding some gimmicks, it'd be actually a better idea to have a look at what can be done to the cars themselves to make the spectacle better. Perhaps more power, less grip to start with?
All the ideas about reversing grids, and such stuff is just artificial 'entertainment' I'd have little interest in. However, an idea of two separate qualifying sessions (wouldn't even mind three) is a good one.

Firstly, I am not in favour of two qualifying sessions for different races as others have said.

About more power and/or less grip, something very obvious was happening right by us on Sunday at Knickerbrook and that was that only the Minis and the Radicals were able to get through it without lifting quite considerably. Now this is something I never realised before from watching the racing on TV. I always thought that they were flat to the floor after coming out of Hislops and then going up Clay Hill but that was not the case, very clearly.

That to me indicates that the Tourers, the Porsches and even the F4s were on the limit of adhesion with their current power and grip. I think that if they altered either this would lead to too many more incidents.