Thread: BTCC, British GT Budget ??

Originally Posted by Fahad_H

In the British GT do two drivers share one car during a single race?

I have no idea about the budgets but I do know that the British GT series run 1 hour races with a mandatory pit stop and driver change.

I don't have much knowledge about touring racing, but I found out that the average budget to run one car in the BTCC is $2,000,000 USD.

Do you think the British GT cost more or less?

I would think GT costs a bit less. BTCC would be a bit more competitive. Although Swedish touring car veteran Jan Nilsson had some controversial views about it. Which didn't go down too well with the British racing fans (who of course think all British racing is the cream of the crop):

"It was once the mother of all touring car championship. But since my team visited the finale this year at Thruxton I suspect that the BTCC and Alan Gow just were lucky during the nineties. A country with a population of more than 60 million runs the BTCC final at a track that makes the Swedish track Geller?sen look like Monaco. They have speakers from before the war, no screens to watch the race on, a pit lane and paddock with holes in the tarmac that makes you afraid of breaking your ankle, stands for 2% of the spectators, pit garages that looks like a outhouse at a junkyard, entry lists in the support classes that reminds me of Swedish racing before 1995 and BTCC teams that barely reach the standard of what the STCC teams have kept for many years.

If you then compare the drivers you quickly see that the top of the BTCC and the support classes keep very high standards, but after that - oh my god! The fact that the organization only manage to get ca. 30.000 spectators in an area that has millions within 100 kilometers from the track only shows that the BTCC is at a dead end.

I am ashamed for the championship when I am there, sadly. If I had met Alan Gow there and then, he would not liked me when I would have told him that we felt fooled going there and paying much money to get in for that shit. Frankie says: no more!"

Summary:
"The BTCC is a terrible championship with poor cars. "



Taken from Touring Car Times