
Of course the British Touring Car Championship has weathered storms over its existence. That’s inevitable, given it’s been going for 66 years.
Think about some of the dire fields of the mid-1980s in Group A days; or the early 2000s when Octagon Motorsport took over the running of the series after buying out organising body TOCA, and the new BTC Touring era kicked off with eight cars on the grid at the 2001 opener. By comparison with that, what’s happened during the 2023-24 off-season has been more a passing shower than full-on thunder and lightning.