TVR and OSS series battle to increase grid numbers

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

The British Racing and Sports Car Club competitions director Dominic Ostrowski admitted the TVR Challenge could even stop altogether unless numbers improved.

“It’s something we will have to talk with John Reid [TVR Challenge co-ordinator] about,” 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 [it could stop], certainly as a championship.”

It is understood the 30th anniversary of the TVR Tuscan Challenge could potentially 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 meeting 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 last three or four years and they started the season well at Silverstone with 42 cars,” Ostrowski added.