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Why a BTCC fantasy can't become reality

The BTCC looks pretty much certain to race beyond October this year due to its late start. But there won't be any action in December - it's too dark and there's no telly

The Boxing Day meeting at Brands Hatch was a beacon of motorsport excitement between the 1950s and 1970s, and this writer even remembers watching it on one of our three television channels as a kid. So the prospect of the British motorsport season being extended in the wake of the coronavirus crisis got this now middle-aged mind into a tantalising whirl of anticipation.

'What if the British Touring Car Championship finale was held just after Christmas at Brands?' I wondered. Autosport's subsequent conversation with Motorsport UK chairman David Richards last week in the latest in our series of #thinkingforward interviews did little to quell such thoughts.

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