There are several alternatives open, the most popular ones being track days, speed competitions and of course racing. Track days are increasingly popular, but don't offer the opportunity to drive your car competitively. You know you're improving but with no timing allowed, it's difficult to know how your skills compare with your fellow drivers. The next step is speed competitions. Speed competitions are a friendly and low-cost form of motorsport organised by and for motoring enthusiasts.
Competitors drive individually around a course of about a mile, against the clock.
Courses vary from a lap of a racing circuit such as Goodwood, or a course laid out at a disused airfield, to the more specialised hillclimb venues which are more like your favorite twisty country lane, often complete with rather solid bits of scenery to catch the unwary. The hillclimb venues are generally seen as more challenging but can be more rewarding too. There are classes for all sorts of cars, from your Mum's shopping car to V8 powered single seaters that look as if they may once have graced an F1 grid. In the TVR camp you regularly see a wide range of cars from Vixens through to Chimaeras, Cerberas and now the occasional Tuscan. Most TVRs compete in absolutely standard condition, with no special preparation required.