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Our 2025 WHO Digital GT Championship sees six teams - led by our Gold-rated drivers - race over three two-hour races on Wednesday evenings, followed by a four-hour, double-points championship finale at our June GT Saturday.

The WHO GT cars run to our local interpretation of the DiSCA GT4 Scalextric Clubman rules, requiring mostly standard Scalextric parts to be used throughout. The older Sidewinder models are permitted to use a vac-formed interior as a Balance of Performance measure.

Teams are strictly Pro-Am - our driver ratings based on performances across all our WHO events and weighted towards individual races. There are six Gold and Six Silver 'Pro' drivers, with all other drivers rated as Bronze. Pro-Am means that at least one Bronze-rated driver must race on each team and must share the driving time equally. A two-minute driver change window straddles the end of stints at 20, 40, 60 and 80 minutes, giving six stints in a two-hour race. A three-driver team shares the six stints equally - two each. A four-driver team must share the six stints equally between Pro (Gold/Silver) and Am (Bronze) drivers, ie Bronze drivers must race at least three stints.

Twenty-four drivers turned up to race for Round One. Gold drivers Alex (WHAM/AST One) and Ryan (Smooth Operators) handed their teams over to deputies. After additional drivers were allocated, this was the line-up...

   


We started the season on Mike's tweaked Barns Hatch layout...

   

... which went together very nicely - without any of the issues we experienced the first time we built this track in August 2023. It is a fast track with some challenging corners and not the easiest for overtaking - a bit like the real-life circuit...

   

After a start of the season drivers' briefing, we were straight into Super-Pole qualifying - the six drivers would also start the race for their teams. Here's the fastest laps from the two-minute session...

   

Congratulation to Ollie - and the newly-branded Slimline team - on another pole position...

   

The Slimline Ford GTE may appear next time out, but Mike's trusty AMG GT3 did the business.