[Kevan]

Race results and report - 16 January 2025 - ‘Battle of Britain’ Team race
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The first of this years theme nights is a new one, ‘Battle of Britain’ for British and German cars….PLENTY of choice there then!

   
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The choice of cars was very varied:

• Ten completely different cars
  
• Five Brits, five Germans
  
• Small Sports, Small Saloon, Group C, LMP, GT1, GT3
  
• Six different car manufacturers (full size)
  
• Seven different Slot car manufacturers bodyshells
  
• Eight different Slot car manufacturers chassis
  
• ‘Back 2 Basics’, Modified and Open classes
  

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Everyone ran 5 qually laps then the cars were seeded from slowest to fastest, then teams were selected starting with the slowest qualifier which was Chris with his E-type Jag who chose Andy’s XJ12C Jaguar as his team-mate.  Then it was next slowest to choose and so-on:

• Chris (Jaguar E-type) + Andy (Jaguar XJ12C)
  
• Ed (Metro 6R4) + Brian (Porsche 956)
  
• Chris (BMW M3) + Kev (Porsche GT1)
  
• Ed (Audi R8C) + Andy (Porsche 911 RSR)
  
• Kev (Jaguar XK120) + Brian (McLaren 720S)
  

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Races were 200 seconds each…let battle (of Britain) commence!
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The closest races on track were between Andy & Brian with only fractions of a lap between them in Heat #3 of Round 1 and Heat #4 of Round 2.
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After all the racing that we enjoyed, how did it finish up?...all is revealed in the results chart.

   
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The next team race theme night to be run in the same manner is the end of February with Italian cars filling our pit boxes.
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Next week is GP & Prewing F1 followed by Saloons
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