[Kevan]

Race report and results - 5th June 2025 - Group 5 followed by Small Sports/Saloons
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TT week is never good for big turnouts, tonight was no exception but the four of us had some great racing and some hilarious moments.
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Pre-race testing saw plenty of choice, the noisiest of which were a couple of Kev ‘s B2B based cars…a change to NSR pinions should dramatically improve matters.
Andy was testing a set of NSR Z-grips (zero graining) and despite doing about 300 laps on them to polish them like Kev did a few weeks ago, was never happy…the car was transformed with a pair of Alan Mann Ultragrips.
Brian & Ed tested a few cars too whilst the computer was set up for tonight's racing.
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Group 5

   
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It’s rare that we see a new car in this class, we’ve all got our tried & tested favourites…tonight was all tried & tested favourites.
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Brian’s Capri used to be good for 6.2 second laps, once those tyres wear away and your old favourite compound is out of production forever (NSR Ultragrips) you end up with sub-par performance as he’s found out.  Half way through his first race the back end of the Capri was fishtailing.  Andy kindly lent him a pair of wheels/tyres to try (I think they were the new Zero graining tyres aka Z-grips) but he wasn’t happy with those then tried a pair of Alan Mann Ultragrips (pre-evo compound) and they are superb tyres, the Capri was back with a BANG!...6.1’s again!
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Andy, Ed & Kev had no such issues, their cars running to expectations.  I have to say Ed’s got that Porsche going pretty handy.
It was good to see Kev’s BMW giving Andy’s Capri a good run in the last heat although the Capri was in the slow (Red) lane the cars were evenly matched.

   
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Small Sports/Saloons

   
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A pair of Back2Basics Jaguar XK120’s (Ed & Kev) and a pair of Open Class cars…well we had major issues…and major laughs with this lot!!!
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Ed was complaining of a bent axle as the Jag was hobbling around the track…miffed pit crew had a look at it and found nothing obvious…only to find a chunk of rubber stuck to a tyre that hadn’t been cleaned off before the racing started!.
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Andy’s AC Cobra shot off at warp factor 9 into the corner at the end of the main straight as he was fiddling around trying to get his controller and voltage box in place.  The end result was a smashed windscreen and a driverless car…the most painful part was the aftermath banter…the funny side wore thin after a while…
…that was, until Ed suddenly announced the reason the Jag was slowing down during the races was the expansion of the axle due to excess heat at high speeds…Andy nearly had an aneurysm he was laughing so hard…I’ve never seen Ed so red in the face he was laughing so hard too
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Brian eventually found top gear with the Ferrari, it’s capable of a 6.6 second lap…honest!
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Kev was racing a proxy Jaguar XK120 with a no-pod one-piece chassis and this time a new untried motor, Scaleauto 20k S-can…and was more than impressed with it’s performance…another is now on order.

   
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A brilliant night’s racing despite the low turnout


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…next week is one of our special theme nights…Le Manx…and it purposely coincides with next weekends Le Mans