OK RACING - The History
After 5 years of success racing the Morgan plus 8 - '99 OK' and wanting to find a different challenge - Matthew Wurr formed a new team - OK RACING, along with another Morgan racer, Mark Longmore. They purchased the ex Colin Waterhouse TVR Tuscan, fitted a new 'AJP' 450bhp V8 engine and resprayed the car in OK RACING Team colours.
Eager to impress potential Sponsors for 1997, they decided to try to regain the Morgan Class A Championship lost to German ace, Klaus Nesbach in 1995. They also contested the 6 non clashing rounds of the Tuscan Challenge - a very competitive and high profile televised race series, which attracted not only regular Professional drivers such as Motorsport Journalist Mark Hales, Touring Car driver's - Bobbie Verdon Roe, Tim Harvey and Ian 'Fluxie' Flux, but also famous drivers such as ex Formula 1 champion Nigel Mansell, Le Mans winner Andy Wallace, Rally ace Colin McRae and Tiff Needell, who featured his racing in the challenge on the BBC's 'Top Gear Motorsport'.
Despite a very small budget, an overweight and underdeveloped car, they became competitive, commanding more than their fair share of TV coverage.
From a starting line up of nearly 40 cars they finished twice in the top 10. In the last round at Donington, a best place of 6th, in damp conditions, where the lack of competitive (and expensive) suspension set up is less pronounced, proved their potential.
In 1997, a 3rd place finish at Snetterton, was their best ever result, until a crash at Oulton Park required a total rebuild of the TVR. The time and cost involved in this rebuild ended their Tuscan Challenge racing.
There followed a number of years away from motor racing until they both found renewed interest, after Mark's purchase of a Historic Mclaren Formula 5000 which needed total restoration... The experience of both re-building and racing a single seater for the first time, coupled with the familiar thrill from the power of a big V8, resulted in a new enthusiasm for racing '99 OK' again and a desire to extend the scope of OK RACING'S skill base to cover the race preparation of other competitors cars and the development of new, specialist designed and fabricated racing products.
