Yvan Muller has slammed the Balance of Performance [BoP] in TCR – calling it a ‘balance of results’ which has been put together by ‘people who are not capable’.
The Hyundai cars have struggled for pace throughout the crucial sessions in the FIA World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) at Zandvoort, with none of the i30 N racers scoring points in Sunday’s first race.
Muller – who crashed out after contact with Michelisz – has slammed the BoP, which saw the Korean cars hit with a 100 mm ride height (20 mm higher than the next closest car) and 97.5% engine power for the fourth event of the season.
“I don’t call it a BoP, for me it is a BoR – balance of results,” said Muller to TouringCars.Net. “Because if they look at the data properly you could see at the Nürburgring that the Hyundai was not the fastest car. At Budapest the car was fast, but the Honda was similar, and it was not done.
“I think it was a BoP maybe – a balance of panic – but a stupid, stupid move. Marcello [Lotti, TCR promoter] has to take some capable people to judge that, because I don’t say that just for the Hyundai. From the beginning there are strange things – and the people are not capable.”
Muller believes that the BoP is sending the wrong message to the car builders and prospective car builders about racing at the top level of touring car racing.
“It is important for the world class championship to have world-class technical engineers and you cannot do with people who are doing stupid things like this.
“What is the message – we went from pole position to P20 and we lost one-and-a-half seconds. What is the message we give?
“It loses the credibility of the championship and it gives the wrong message to the manufacturers who are in the championship and those who may still yet come.”