[BTCC] BTCC 2023 season discussion, News and Rumours!

[redshoes]

http://www.mini7.co.uk/2023-calendar...eaturing-btcc/
As expected, Mini's to run as BTCC support at Thruxton

[Evantra]

Originally Posted by redshoes

http://www.mini7.co.uk/2023-calendar...eaturing-btcc/
As expected, Mini's to run as BTCC support at Thruxton

Nice, missed them this year. Shame it's just the one round!

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by redshoes

http://www.mini7.co.uk/2023-calendar...eaturing-btcc/
As expected, Mini's to run as BTCC support at Thruxton

Excellent news. Real racing again. I hope they don't show up the BTCC races too much!

[rdjones]

As expected, the Legends will be joining the BTCC at Brands, Croft and Knockhill

https://legendsracingeurope.com/sens...-cars-in-2023/

[Robin Marriott]

https://www.btcc.net/2022/11/01/three-event-btcc-support-slot-confirmed-for-legends-cars-championship-in-2023/

Legends confirmed for Brands Indy, Croft and Knockhill.

[Evantra]

https://twitter.com/berttcr/status/1...021378049?s=21

Bert Taylor and Smiley committed to TCR - doesn't seem like the BTCC is on their agenda for the time being. In fact noticed he's changed his handle to 'berttcr'!

[SSmith]

FINAL CALENDAR

Donington Park National 22/23 April
BTCC
British F4
MINI JCW
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Porsche Sprint Challenge GB

Brands Hatch Indy 6/7 May
BTCC
British F4
MINI JCW
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Legends Cars Championship

Snetterton 20/21 May
BTCC
British F4
MINI JCW
Porsche Sprint Challenge
Radical Cup UK

Thruxton 3/4 June
BTCC
British F4
MINI Trophy
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Mini Miglia/Mini Se7ens

Oulton Park 17/18 June
BTCC
British F4
MINI JCW
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Radical Cup UK

Croft 29/30 July
BTCC
British F4
MINI Trophy
Porsche Sprint Challenge
Legends Cars Championship

Knockhill 12/13 August
BTCC
British F4
MINI JCW
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Legends Cars Championship

Donington GP August 26/27
BTCC
British F4
MINI Trophy
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Porsche Sprint Challenge

Silverstone National September 23/24
BTCC
MINI JCW
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Porsche Sprint Challenge
Caterham Seven Championship UK

Brands Hatch GP October 7/8
BTCC
British F4
MINI JCW
Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Porsche Sprint Challenge

[S griffin]

It’s nice to see them continuing to rotate different support series in each meeting

[redshoes]

https://www.btcc.net/2022/11/02/toca...ation-changes/

- Top Ten qualifying shootout at 5 meetings
- Option Tyres
- hybrid for max 50% laps plus lower deployment speed for most of the field; more restriction and higher deployment speed for top 7

[Evantra]

The qualifying shootout seems ok, particularly at shorter circuits where traffic is more of an issue, but think it'll get confusing doing it at half the rounds and not the others.

Less said about those tyres the better!

Hybrid sounds like it's got even more complicated... hopefully it becomes clearer in practice.


"All year I’ve been asked by teams and drivers to bring the option tyre back for 2023, as they really enjoy the challenge it provides." Hmm... not convinced, don't remember ever hearing a positive comment about it!

[Matt K]

Top Ten Showdown (which by no means is a shootout) is quite a nice change - nothing revolutionary but ok.
However, not going to lie, I'm not a fan of remaining two changes. Option tyres combined with amended hybrid rules will again provide more gimmicky racing but that was to be expected, wasn't it.

[Jon411]

The tactical use of the Hybrid should mix things up a bit more.

Potentially if we have another situation like Colin at Silverstone with no deployment it could give the driver a bit more of a chance to make up places if it does go wrong also.

Will be interesting to see if the changes in deployment speed cause the FWD Teams to start suggesting it gives an unfair advantage to RWD as wasn't that the reason as to why the deployment speed was set as it was in the first place?

[Craner Curves]

Originally Posted by Evantra

The qualifying shootout seems ok, particularly at shorter circuits where traffic is more of an issue, but think it'll get confusing doing it at half the rounds and not the others.

Not confusing to me. The V8s in Australia rotate their qualifying format often and nobody really complains. I'm a big fan of the shootout.

[Robin Marriott]

Originally Posted by Evantra

Hybrid sounds like it's got even more complicated... hopefully it becomes clearer in practice.

Took me a couple of reads to try to understand it and I’m still not entirely sure it makes sense. Capping cars 8-31 (32?) at 50% of the laps seems backwards and I think it’ll create a bigger gap between the front and the back of the grid.

I guess it doesn’t really matter though. Most viewers don’t care about how or why the cars do what they do, as long as there’s racing.

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Robin Marriott

Took me a couple of reads to try to understand it and I’m still not entirely sure it makes sense. Capping cars 8-31 (32?) at 50% of the laps seems backwards and I think it’ll create a bigger gap between the front and the back of the grid.

I guess it doesn’t really matter though. Most viewers don’t care about how or why the cars do what they do, as long as there’s racing.

As I understand it, the application for races would be someting like (figures are indicative, not absolute - based on a 18 lap race):

Position	Hybrid Laps	Hybrid deployment speed (minimum)
1	1	100kph
2	2	100kph
3	3	100kph
4	4	100kph
5	5	100kph
6	7	100kph
7	8	100kph
8	9	80kph
9	9	80kph
......
31	9	80kph