Boss says BTCC on right track

Gow, who has recently taken up the chairmanship of the British Governing body, the Motor Sports association, believes that the switch to World Touring Car style Super 2000 regulations in 2007, combined with live television coverage of every round this season, will have the carmakers coming back.

"I spend all my waking time trying to get people involved in the BTCC," Gow told the audience of the central stage at the Autosport International show.

"They all know about how to do the BTCC. What any company, like the BTCC, has to do is keep busy, keep banging away and selling the product to others.

"We changed our regulations to the 2007 World Touring Car Regulations I have no doubt that there will be more manufacturers coming to us. Even before that we're heading the right direction.

"The cost of the BTCC became incredibly expensive when you consider it was costing ten million pounds to win a British national championship.

"What we've done is completely reversed that. No matter how wealthy you are the rules are such now our rules are such that you can't overspend to get performance. When Team Dynamics won the championship for the first time a privateer won a championship shows that our regulations work."