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The second round of our 2025 WHO GT Championship was also our Easter holiday team race. That tradition goes back to 2014 and has featured Micro Scalextric, AFX LMP and now digital team races. In addition to the race winners medals, there were five Easter eggs up for grabs too.

   

We finally got to race on the track Simon had designed for the January Nascar & Legends night - and it looked fabulous on paper and even better set up at the Barn...

   

Fast and technical, practice suggested this was a track to favour the inline cars. There was plenty of testing going on and important car choices made. Slimline decided against running the Ford GTE this time and ran with the Dadson Bentley Continental - the team will run four different cars over the season. Ryan was back at the helm of Smooth Ops and decided to go with his pink and silver Mercedes rather than Simon's Bentley. For MOZZIE, Matthew was deputising for Dean and they had an Aston Martin Vantage GT3. The other three teams would race the same machinery from Round One. And - as far as possible - we kept the driver line-ups from last time...

   

The official action began at 7pm with the 2-minute Super-Pole session. The team members taking part would start the race. As always, it was a frantic session, with some drivers nailing a great lap and others not. In the end, these were the times...

   
 
A fine return for Ryan and suggested the Mercedes has perked up since last season. With Ollie just eighteen hundredths of a second behind, we were all looking forward to a exciting opening stint to the race...

   

Race Control rolled the weather dice and we'd set the 575 lap race up with three random weather elements - RCS64 would decide what those were...