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TWEAKS TO THE HYBRID RULES
It’s fair to say that not everyone in the British Touring Car Championship was ecstatic about the new hybrid system that arrived for 2022; some teams were still having problems with its reliability at the end of the season. But what cannot be denied is that restriction on hybrid usage for the series’ most successful drivers was a far more satisfactory method of performance-balancing than the success-ballast system it replaced.
That’s been tweaked for 2023 in the wake of a season where racing was more processional. The minimum speed for hybrid deployment has been cut from 120km/h to 115, but this goes up to 135km/h in increments for the top seven in the championship for qualifying and race one of each event, and for the top seven in races one and two for races two and three respectively. Hybrid usage in races has been cut, with no one allowed the boost for more than 50% of laps, while the
