Cost reduction for previous winners

[Steve33]

Howabout the top 4 have a penalty of 200 , so 799 instead of 999 that would stop the magic calculater being used ...

[froggy]

how would that work ??

[Renrut]

Nah, they're penalised by having to use last years car. If they blew their entire budget that year they pretty much can't do anything other than maintain it.

I've always thought that kind of rule was daft and a way of compensating teams that aren't as good as the others to stop them 'taking their ball away'.

Besides I don't think we need to penalise the TT, what are the odds of it surviving 2 years in a row?

[Steve33]

Unless he has built it again for this year.

[Relentless Rob]

One of the things that makes the £999 Challange is the fact it's an even playing field with only what we can do with the budget and do with the cars that makes the difference.

A two tear system would spoil it, if you remember I've suggested a £499 class for us porpers before. It would be a hollow victory if you were able to beat last years winners knowing that it was because they had a smaller budget rather than you own build and driving ability.

I can see where you're coming from though as the BTCC add balast to winning cars. I wouldn't work as well with us as many of the builds come in way under budget anyway.