NEW DECADE, NEW START FOR THE BRSCC
Fifty-seven cars. As an average number of entries for a championship across a season, that’s a very impressive figure. And out of all 177 English categories, the 57-car average for the British Racing & Sports Car Club’s Mazda MX-5 Championship (for the Mk1 model of the popular Japanese sportscar) was the highest last year. But the BRSCC also featured at the bottom of those tables as the five-car average for its Fiesta Junior championship was the lowest. In all, six of its classes featured grid numbers in single digits at times during 2019, and that contrast between great successes and disappointing struggles has typified the club in recent seasons.
There was the arrival of the TCR UK category two years ago to much fanfare, but that inaugural season proved to be somewhat of a flop. The club has also lost a couple of long-running championships to rival organisers as coordinators sought to find new homes. And it has even suffered public criticism about a lack of support from the boss of one of its series that collapsed over the winter.
It therefore certainly has not been plain sailing for one of the UK’s largest race meeting organisers. And it’s incredibly refreshing for the BRSCC’s chairman Peter Daly to candidly admit as much.
“As a club, people may think we’ve had a disaster – we’ve not had the best of rides over the last 12
