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The BTCC's big debate

Should the rear-wheel-drive cars be slowed down? That's the question Colin Turkington's recent successes have brought to the British Touring Car paddock. KEVIN TURNER speaks to the key players in search of an answer

The recent domination of Colin Turkington's rear-wheel-drive WSR-run BMW in the British Touring Car Championship has rekindled the heated debate about the relative strengths of RWD and FWD.

Some key figures - including Jason Plato - have called for the RWD machines to be pegged back, but others have pointed to different track characteristics to argue there should be no knee-jerk reactions.

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