Column: “WTCC is dead, long live WTCC”

It might sound strange, but I think the financial “collapse” of the world is going to be the salvation for motorsport and especially Formula One and Touring Cars.
Ever since the S2000 rules were introduced, fights over the rules have been many in the World Touring Car Championship.

Elderly men in suits with the manufacturer behind them, briefcases loaded with threats to pull out, have completely crushed all sporting values over who or what brand deserves to cross the finish line first in a WTCC race.

Weights, dispensations, turbo pressures, flat floors, H gearboxes, sequential gearboxes and more have been used as political tools to hit each other with.

Everything to win one or two races and use doping to get a better result as equalization, because “the others” got to win the last race.

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