Glory Days of the TVR Tuscan Challenge

[chris willy]

Dear TVR Racers,

to fill the gap to the next season, we will share some "old" memories (pics) of the TVR Tuscan Challenge... (sorry about the quality)



TC 1995 Brands Hatch
Paddock (from right): Peter Wheeler, Sigi Kieninger (German TVR Importer) and

Cheers
cw

Edited by chris willy on Sunday 20th November 17:40

[kevin63]

Here's a couple of videos I made at Mallory Park, again apologies for the quality (it was in the 90s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfRi9ws1a4&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMFtclZd3w&fea...

[cirvy]

Tuscan racing was the best Motorsport that ever lived. Great days & very sadly missed.

Cheers for the memories Kev

[Guillotine]

We still do our best mate, its only the numbers we lack (and we had 28 registered driver this year)
getting there!

great footage Kev

Andy

[wadsapple]

Hi Chris,

Cool trousers man.It was good to meet you at Spa you don't look a day older

perry car 77

[chris willy]

Hi Perry,

it was a great pleasure to meet you, Graham, Andy and all the others at Spa. Thanx for taking the time for us...!!!
I think we had a perfect race weekend there, could not be better... hope we can meet us 2012 at Spa again:-)...

Here are another snapshot from the 1995 TC paddock at Brands

[chris willy]

TC 1995 Brands Hatch

Colin Blower (No.5) in front of Ian Flux (No.22) - Martin Short (No.88) - John Kent (No.27)

[RetroWheels]

Edited by RetroWheels on Saturday 26th November 21:09

[UpTheIron]

Beautiful pics... having just moved house, I need to get a few of these put onto canvas to adorn the place... please keep posting :-)

[RetroWheels]

The Hughmacher Back In the Day ..

Edited by RetroWheels on Sunday 27th November 02:18

[Keithyboy]

Awesome pics guys

[450Nick]

chris willy said:

TC 1995 Brands Hatch

Colin Blower (No.5) in front of Ian Flux (No.22) - Martin Short (No.88) - John Kent (No.27)

My how it's changed...! (Flux's Red & Yellow one)

[IanUAE]

Who was the driver with pistonheads.com on the bonnet?

[chris willy]

WoW... this TC pics are really amazing...!!! Thanx for sharing...!!!

Here are a few others from 1995 TC at Brands...

BTW... IIRC it was the biggest starting grid (31 TC Racers) since the launch of the TC Series...



Paddock... PW and JR ?... car No. 27 John Kent & car No.7 Bob Sands



PW (8) in the ex-JR TC Racer..



John McQuilkin (18) in front of Matt Doman (34), Nigel Tustain (11), white one ? and Gareth Lloyd (54) on the way to the starting grid...



Starting Grid...



Roger Connel (16)...



Giles Cooper (15) in front of PW (8)...

[chris willy]

450Nick said:

chris willy said:

TC 1995 Brands Hatch

Colin Blower (No.5) in front of Ian Flux (No.22) - Martin Short (No.88) - John Kent (No.27)

My how it's changed...! (Flux's Red & Yellow one)

Hi Nick,

you yellow racer reminds me to the Stegia Tuscan Racer of Hans T. from sweden...

Cheers cw

[RetroWheels]

Pits and Paddock pics from 2003..

Jet Black Motorsport - Tim Hood



Hugh Marshall



TVR Motorsport

[tvrolet]

Any pics from 1999/2000?

[450Nick]

chris willy said:

Hi Nick,

you yellow racer reminds me to the Stegia Tuscan Racer of Hans T. from sweden...

Cheers cw

That's Danny's green Tuscan. My Tuscan actually came from Sweden as well and was the sister car to this one, built by Ulf Eriksson and his Bäcka Event racing team. The team built and owned my one and then they also ran Han's for him as I understand it so they were painted the same for a long time. I have some more pics of both somewhere and a rather cool X-ray type cutaway drawing of Han's car from the workshop in Sweden.

If you have any more pics of my car i'd love to see them. It's had a pretty interesting life by the look of it and I think the swedish pair won a lot of races in the Nordic supercar series judging by the amount of lead plates I had to remove from the tub when I bought it in pieces a couple of years ago!

[johnmcq]

John McQuilkin (18) in front of Matt Doman (34), Nigel Tustain (11), white one ? and Gareth Lloyd (54) on the way to the starting grid...

Hmmm. Those were the days!!

I'm in No. 18.

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I remember watching these on TV, which is what got me in to TVR's. It wasn't until about 2002/2003 that I went to brands to see them live. Since then I have tried to go to at least one race a year. Last year I managed to attend 4 rounds, admittedly just spectating, funds do not allow anything else at the moment! I'd love to watch these rounds from the glory years again.