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BTCC :: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
Copying Formula One tyre regulations, cars will use a "harder" tyre for two races and a softer "option" tyre for one race per weekend, selected by the teams.
I absolutely hate this idea, and honestly, do we really need more gimmicks in this series?
BTCC :: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
Oh great. It gets better. The cancer of performance equalisation continues. And this time it's per driver, not per car. This might actually be the straw that breaks the camels back in terms of me abandoning this series.
We are left in a position now where we have the following gimmicks:
- Reversed grids
- Option tyres
- Success ballast
And also
- Performance equalised cars
- Performance equalised drivers
So next season we will Jeff Smith running more turbo boost than Shedden or Neal simply because he is slower.
I cannot adequately express how angry I am about what Alan Gow has done to this series in the last three years.
No — and this goes for F1 as well. I have no time for anything that makes understanding a championship's rules unnecessarily complex, and this is just such a concept.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
This, surely, is a slight improvement: 'The amount of change (ie. increase/decrease) in the turbo boost pressure adjustment will be reduced from the current level'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
They are equalising on a driver-by-driver basis! How is that better?Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Suddenly I understand why everyone wants Insignia's next season. Why would you not go for the cheapest thing going if its just going to fully equalised like this?
Here's an idea. Everybody runs cars built to the same rules, so whoever is the best driver and running the best-prepared car, wins.
It could catch on...
Isn't this what we had in 91-00? And weren't they, I dunno, the greatest years the series has ever seen. Wonder if there might be some correlation in that? ...
P.S. I know its not the only factor, but I just don't get this nonsense at all. Didn't understand it in WTCC and don't now in BTCC.
Well its already gotten to the stage for me that i would rather watch F1 which has never been the case. Before too long ITV will dump it as well, then where will the series be? Not sure why they ever wanted to go down the route of cheap cheap cheap.
Well, there was money in the championship in those days. Now I suppose this is a way of trying to get a bigger pool of front-running cars by other means. I think it's pointless, because I'm sure the racing would be sufficiently close without such gimmicks. Wouldn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
I was pleased to see some comment on the matter from Autosport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
Boost equalisation rules tweaked for 2013 BTCC season - BTCC news - AUTOSPORT.com
The question as to why the teams apparently agreed to this is a very good one. I can't understand it at all.
Maybe the plan is to slow everyone else down, so Andy Neate'll be out front on his own so he can't hit anyone...