BTCC 2024 News & Rumours

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Nothing to do with BTCC, or motor sport in general, but this may be a problem for the UK's police force as they are having to replace all their high performance BMW saloons and estates as they have a tendency to catch fire. Currently, they are being replaced with Volvo estates and some Skoda VRSs.

BMW effectively has blocked UK Police from their cars as the bad publicity is not good. This tendency of the Police to leave diesel engines idling for hours and then tear up the road is not good for the cars. Or the environment, but I don't see anybody kicking up a stink about that. You'd hope that a copper would be able to twist a key or press a start button...

[redshoes]

Seems the future is going to be electric powered SUVs, well that's something to look forward to. I'm sure we were all fans of the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by redshoes

Seems the future is going to be electric powered SUVs, well that's something to look forward to. I'm sure we were all fans of the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy

Given the acceptance of moving on from the past exhibited by some BTCC fans, it will be 2053 and people will be longing for the halcyon days of NGTC with hybrid!!

[Sodemo]

Lets hope them supertourers are still running in 2053

[porsche962fan]

Originally Posted by redshoes

Seems the future is going to be electric powered SUVs, well that's something to look forward to. I'm sure we were all fans of the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy

once EV burst into fire nothing stops it until they burn out a few hours later



like the recent cargo ship fire demostrated

[redshoes]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Given the acceptance of moving on from the past exhibited by some BTCC fans, it will be 2053 and people will be longing for the halcyon days of NGTC with hybrid!!

That will be right about the time Ash Sutton wins his 27th title.

[Evantra]

Originally Posted by redshoes

That will be right about the time Ash Sutton wins his 27th title.

…and Team Hard is fielding the entire grid.

…and porsche962fan makes his 10,000th post on fragile toe links

[Matt K]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Given the acceptance of moving on from the past exhibited by some BTCC fans, it will be 2053 and people will be longing for the halcyon days of NGTC with hybrid!!

Well, even NGTC cars sound better than electric!

But yeah, probably going electric at some point in the future is inevitable and we just have to hope racing can still be good and we all get used to that. My hope is that racing can still function in its current form when electric, not 10-minute gimmicky 'duels', finals or whatever for 4 cars.

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by porsche962fan

once EV burst into fire nothing stops it until they burn out a few hours later



like the recent cargo ship fire demostrated

Allegedly

[Evantra]

Originally Posted by Matt K

But yeah, probably going electric at some point in the future is inevitable and we just have to hope racing can still be good and we all get used to that. My hope is that racing can still function in its current form when electric, not 10-minute gimmicky 'duels', finals or whatever for 4 cars.

Replace option tyres with attack modes and activation zones, and hybrid boost for fan boost…

[porsche962fan]

make BTCC great again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ibkXtsu4wI

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by billy bleach

Allegedly

Trust me, they burned. How the fire started is unlikely ever to be known; if they get that ship safely into a port without it sinking that will be quite an achievement.

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

Trust me, they burned. How the fire started is unlikely ever to be known; if they get that ship safely into a port without it sinking that will be quite an achievement.

Already docked. Always rely on Smitak

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

Trust me, they burned. How the fire started is unlikely ever to be known; if they get that ship safely into a port without it sinking that will be quite an achievement.

I'm guessing the 'allegedly' refers to the statement - "once EV burst into fire nothing stops it until they burn out a few hours later"

The truth is that some Li-ion incidents will result on a thermal runaway, that can require a higher level of cooling to extinguish compared to a carbon based fire. But it is wrong to claim that all EV fires will result in a thermal runaway, or that all thermal runaways have to be allowed to sell extinguish.

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

I'm guessing the 'allegedly' refers to the statement - "once EV burst into fire nothing stops it until they burn out a few hours later"

The truth is that some Li-ion incidents will result on a thermal runaway, that can require a higher level of cooling to extinguish compared to a carbon based fire. But it is wrong to claim that all EV fires will result in a thermal runaway, or that all thermal runaways have to be allowed to sell extinguish.

No, the allegedly referred to the cause of the recent car carrier fire

[touring fan01]

can we get any more off topic
whats this ev convo got to do with btcc 2024??

[Matt K]

Originally Posted by Evantra

Replace option tyres with attack modes and activation zones, and hybrid boost for fan boost…

Sounds eerily plausible...

[RED55]

We have all this hype about motorsport having to go electric , but here is an interesting alternative.

Motorsport has the opportunity to keep the combustion engine alive . We can have series that are electric, that can be used for the appropriate related technology from manufacturers and the future .

However now is the time to open up motorsport to celebrate the internal combustion engine. The technology and engineering is already here it doesnt need any further development. F1 for example could easily go back to a durable V10 engine running on biofuel , after all when the motor vehicle replaced the horse it didnt stop horses from developing into racers for pleasure did it .

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by RED55

We have all this hype about motorsport having to go electric , but here is an interesting alternative.

Motorsport has the opportunity to keep the combustion engine alive . We can have series that are electric, that can be used for the appropriate related technology from manufacturers and the future .

However now is the time to open up motorsport to celebrate the internal combustion engine. The technology and engineering is already here it doesnt need any further development. F1 for example could easily go back to a durable V10 engine running on biofuel , after all when the motor vehicle replaced the horse it didnt stop horses from developing into racers for pleasure did it .

It didn't, but when did you last see a chariot race draw a large TV audience?

[AnnoyedMoose]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

It didn't, but when did you last see a chariot race draw a large TV audience?

But there is an enormous amount of horse racing on TV compared to the likes of the BTCC for instance.

[RED55]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

It didn't, but when did you last see a chariot race draw a large TV audience?

Ah you see now there is a support race series in the making right there . Lol

[Sodemo]

I guess it’s inevitable that the conventional engine will be further scaled down and the EV element scaled up in the coming years. Hell if they can make the cars all sound like super bikes I’d keep watching.

[Craner Curves]

Anymore on WSR running a 2 series Gran Coupe? Listening to Dick Bennetts on a podcast and he was speaking about next year's programme. They desperately need it.

[S griffin]

Jake Hill is still doing well with the Beemer. I don’t think they necessarily need to change

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by Craner Curves

Anymore on WSR running a 2 series Gran Coupe? Listening to Dick Bennetts on a podcast and he was speaking about next year's programme. They desperately need it.

Desperately?