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2025 Season - Rnd 5 - May 17th
Policar Performance Day

This was to be the first 'all Policar' meeting, the support race being for club-owned, Vic-prepared Policar Subaru 'Rally' cars. All were fitted with lead instead of the magnet, oiled where needed and had the front tyres varnished.

The club has built up quite a stable membership now with the usual fourteen drivers turning out to help set up the track for the night.

Support Class: Club Policar Subarus

          

With all cars equal, racing was very close, with Mark J setting the lap record for the new class at 13.278 seconds, to come home in first place 1.6 laps ahead of Shaun, who had sourced ALL the cars for the meeting. Exactly one lap covered second to fifth places, with third to fifth being taken by David, 'Bill and Ben'. (I know, I know - for those of a certain age!)

          

Racing was so close that Vic, who'd set up and tested all the cars and should have been most familiar with them, came home a surprising sixth!

The final heat screen (shown below), which also gives overall positions, shows how closely matched the cars were, with five of the six drivers best lap times being covered by half second.

   

Main race,  Owner/Driver Policar Maserati GTs.

With only a few more mods allowed - mainly a change to trued up tyres of the drivers choice -  several drivers had just stuck with cosmetic alterations, with either a partial or complete repaint and/or added decals. Some cars had been re-shod and run in though and seemed to be going very well.

         

There was one driver who hadn't even touched his car prior to the meeting, opening the box on the night and removing the traction magnet before the race. Much to his surprise he came home the winner in this class, that driver being - Mark J again. Mark set the lap record of 12.529 seconds here too, three quarters of a second quicker than that of the Subaru class.

           

Although tyre truing and a change of tyres was allowed this points to the longer/lower Maserati car contributing to the faster laps and higher lap scores throughout the field.

          

The top nine, who I assume all modded their cars running gear to some degree, improved their 'club car' scores by at least three laps. Most impressively though, Larry and James improved by 6.4 and 7 laps respectively!

          

   

Can any conclusions be drawn from this?

Most definitely yes! The Policars were a HUGE hit!

They definitely provided very enjoyable, cost effective, competitive and race-worthy no-mag cars for both the mildly tweaked 'club stock', or the slightly more open owner/driver class.

They were just as much fun as other leading brands at half to two thirds  the price, so a great big 'BANG for the buck.'

Next race day is on Sat 21st June, 

Support race: Club Scalextric Porsche 911 GT3's.

Mains: Owner/driver Saloon cars, British touring cars, DTM etc. with inline chassis and max motor rpm of 20,000.

(All photos courtesy of Vic King.)