The issue of Conrad's hypothetical BMW 2002 S14 re-power and Ray's hypothetical acceptance of it in the ERC series raises concerns.

We have a BMW 2002 which has a T&C COD - the car races in Ray's ERC series. We have spent lots effort and money in building a compliant M10 race engine for it. I would be pretty upset if in the same race (if our 2002 improved its lap time by around 1 second it could move to the Arrows grid) an identical looking BMW 2002 was lapping at around 10 seconds a lap quicker. The handicap system makes no difference - it is demonstrably obvious that one apparently identical car is considerably quicker than the other. The conclusion for the vast majority who wouldn't know that one car had a modern engine, would be that it looks as though our car is either poorly developed or has a poor driver (or both). I think this would lead to us getting p….ed off and ultimately leaving our car in the garage - a genuine and compliant classic race car removed from racing due to a "hotrod"?? It has happened quite a few times already.