Q:
One last thing before we wrap it up, the BTCC has been a pioneer in regards to alternative fuels in recent seasons with Mardi Gras on LPG and then a number of teams on bio-ethanol. This season we have diesel with Rick Kerry – how pleased are you to see his car coming into the series?
Alan Gow:
I think it’s fantastic. I’ve been saying for years that I didn’t know why someone hadn’t done it and hats off to Rick - he is going to struggle and he is a pioneer. What’s the old saying? ‘Pioneers get lost and explorers get eaten by the natives’ or something like that. He’ll find it tough but he will get a lot of publicity from it. Again it shows that we have been open to people who want to run diesel or LPG or bio-fuels. There is a lot of talk of the green and environmental issues in motorsport and I’m proud that going back to 1993, we were the first championship to have catalytic converters as standard – and quite a lot of championships still don’t have that. We have always been at the forefront of that kind of thing and have been open minded about it and this is another example of it. It will be interesting to see Rick develop that car, and I hope everyone gets right behind him.
