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interviewed FIA President Jean Todt at the opening round of the WTCC season in Marrakech in 2014, also the launch of the TC1 era. Those cars were impossibly expensive, with carbon bodywork and new engines. As the BTCC became too expensive in the late 1990s it suffered as a result, so to start the new era of WTCC with a costly concept seemed at best ill-advised. Yet, Todt declared that if you want modern racing, it’s with the highest technology, and if you want tradition, go historic. ‘All the manufacturers are talking about hybrid, electric, hydrogen, downsized engines, so if you want to have a sense about racing,