BTCC ABOLISH HYBRID FOR 2025!

[@AM44W11]

Alan Gow's definitely not messing around. Will be interesting to see what other changes he'll make in the coming months. And for a new fan myself it'll be strange but exciting to see the drivers battling and overtaking using pure skill alone.

[@JaredR1996]

Ngl. I wanted this to happen. The hybrid systems are just too expensive for some teams. I heard that teams were dropping out of the series because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of hybrid, which of course led to less cars on the grid

[@tomstafford3706]

Great fantastic. Pure racing from the drivers it's still a fantastic championship

[@danwright7389]

The flashing lights in the side windows will remain. The extra boost will come solely from the turbo now, like a scramble boost function. So we’ll still have push to pass/push to defend. They are removing the boost deployment from the live timing screens but the ITV stream will still show it.

[@MrJoshiej]

100% Naturally Aspirated sounds very good to me

[@ElliotWebberYT]

@@MrJoshiej the BTCC cars haven’t been naturally aspirated for years, they’ll still remain with the 2 litre turbocharged engines

[@JackKeithley]

I get why Alan Gow tried it for BTCC. With what the Car makers were going to do and getting subsidies from Governments to try to push and pursue in Electric/Hybrid, but after seeing nowhere near the progression once thought of, Hybrid is being taken away. Plus for BTCC, the costs were getting too much from what I have read. Hence this year, lowest grid sizes in 14 years.

[@villagernumber77]

Sounds like BTCC is going to be 1 year ahead of formula 1 in regards to introducing synthetic fuel.

[@tangerinedream7211]

Hybrid costs haven't helped grid sizes, hadn't improved the spectacle or results compared to success ballast. There's a chance hybrid may go from the WRC as well. Be interesting to see what cars NAPA run next year, Ash had terrible luck this year, double DNF at Oulton, taken out at Donnington GP and Brands GP.

[@ElliotWebberYT]

@@tangerinedream7211 NAPA will still be running the Fords next year, they plan to have new cars for 2026

[@fredjames9867]

Money. Want the sport to survive. Want to get paid . All this can be ecu controlled. .for the same result

[@mattyg267]

Soooo.... we're going to see the bmw's even more OP than before then? Mr gow doesn't make it too obvious he's on their payroll does he 🤣