ALAN GOW KEEPING BRITISH TOURING CARS AT THE TOP OF THE UK MOTORSPORT LADDER
Steering the ship of the British Touring Car Championship is not an easy job, with the demands of drivers, teams, circuits, television and the fans to balance. Creating a format and a race day which keeps everyone happy is a treacherous path to follow, but one which chief executiveAlan Gow has trodden since the early 1990s.
There was a brief break between 2000 and 2003 when he sold the series, but since his return, the foundations have been laid and helped keep the BTCC at the very forefront of motorsport in this country.
The series is, like everything else at the moment, on hiatus as the world holds its breath to see when motorsport can continue, but don’t think that has given Gow any time off.
We were lucky enough to catch a few spare moments when we could and posed some Motorsport News readers’ questions to theAustralian.
Alan Gordon Via Facebook
What do you consider to be the most successful rule change you have implemented in the British Touring Car Championship throughout your tenure?
“Gosh. It has to be the [current] NGTC regulations and I will tell you why. First of all, I didn’t implement the rule change for the two-litre regulations in the 1990s [which went on to become the basis of Super Touring]. They were already there when I took over running the championship. Then after we sold TOCA in 2000, the BTC-spec regulations were introduced but they weren’t anything to do with me and they weren’t successful. Then when I came
