BTCC » Gow: Vauxhall exit 'inevitable'

Makes sense really, Vauxhall would have needed to develop the Insignia as the race car for next season and that would have cost a fair bit. Hope Triple8 can find something that they can be involved on next year. Presence of a works team is good, as if nothing else it gives the non works teams and privateers something to aim for!

I hope BTCC falls apart or gow leaves. He is starting to hurt british motorsport the same way the V8 supercars hurt australian motorsport - anyone who's been to a V8 supercar meeting will know what i mean.

What is with this australian way of having one race meeting that tries to monopolise the whole of the country's motorsport???

it's a shame that the scrutineers didn't pick up on the 'diesel Seat' fiasco sooner......bit like Audi Le Mans fiasco, and how conveniently the Seats broke down or were out of the points at the vital finishing races at Brands.....!! Well if you wanted to run a privateer Seat it would of course not be diesel would it.....

Those of you saying "oh Alan Gow is ruining it" how exactly? he has held this championship together and made it more competitive than its ever been over the past few years. He could have thrown in the towel and given up on it but he didnt and like he said, BTCC has never been all about manufacturer entries, right from the beginning its always had a lot of privately entered cars. The only exception to that was in the Super Touring era where the costs were so stupidly high that no privately run teams could afford to run competitive cars in the end.

gow is not ruining BTCC but is hurting british motorsport as a whole. there is more to british motorsport than BTCC and the british grand prix - there wouldn't be if gow had his way!

YOU'LL BE MISSED VXR!
LOOKS LIKELY THAT VOVLVO WON'T ENTER THE CHAMPIONSHIP NOW AS A MANUFACTURER, AS THERE WILL NO OTHER MANUFACTURERS TO RACE AGAINST.

HOPE THE MANUFACTURER TEAMS COME BACK FOR 2011

I know its disappointing, but look at it this way:

Alan Gow is right in saying that the lack of manufacturers has not meant that the racing is any less exciting.

In the 90s we had Super tourers but wave after wave of dominating teams - 93 BMW, 94 Alfa, 96 Audi, 98 Renault, 99 Nissan, 00 Ford comes to my mind. At least in this way it really is an exciting prospect for any private team to challenge for the title.

Plus Gio and Neal are no Cleland in terms of personality for the sport...