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TVR CHALLENGE

The TVR Challenge faces a fight to keep its championship status after a poor turnout at some rounds this year, culminating in just six entries for the three races at Castle Combe last weekend.

British Racing & Sports Car Club competitions director Dominic Ostrowski admitted that the TVR Challenge could even stop altogether unless numbers improve. A season high of nine cars attended the first round.

“It’s something we will have to talk about with John Reid [TVR Challenge coordinator],” he said. “It can’t go on the way it is as a championship. What they had here was 80 minutes of track time with only six cars. The risk is very real [that it could stop], certainly as a championship.”

It is understood that the 30th anniversary of the TVR Tuscan Challenge could be used to help boost numbers in some capacity next year.

The OSS championship also suffered a low turnout with nine cars at Combe, but competitors believe a number of factors were to blame, including a Bikesport round held on the same weekend at Silverstone, the Combe circuit not suiting the cars and many frontrunners suffering with mechanical problems.

“It’s surprising. OSS has been a very strong championship over the past three or four years and they started the season well at Silverstone with 42 cars,” Ostrowski added.