[Kevan]

Race report and results - 24th July 2025 - Group 5 followed by NSR Mosler ‘Club Challenge’ #6
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Group 5

   
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A great turnout tonight, 7 racers which meant plenty of marshals and a couple of cars not raced before.
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Kev racing a blue MRRC Toyota prepared for Back2Basics Class which has NSR Z-grips with about 300 laps running-in during practice (they only work well once polished like this).
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Andy raced a red version but on one of his brass chassis and a full-fat Falcon motor which had a few tyre changes in testing but is now fully race-ready.
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Alongside Andy’s Toyota in the Open Class were a pair of Capris, Mike’s on a Mack/Eurosport chassis with a low-fat Falcon motor and Gav’s with a standard chassis and SlotIt pod but a NSR Shark 32k motor.
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Mike’s Capri looks better each time, again probably tyres getting polished.
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Gav’s Capri really needs a slower motor so he can control it more consistently.
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Modified Class was dominated by Chris racing the club BMW 320i’s (which went very well).
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Brian’s Capri with a new set of NSR Alan Mann Ultragrips was definitely off the pace tonight but will improve as those tyres get polished.
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Ed’s Porsche is a nice runner, he drove it well and didn’t throw it over the barrier like Brian’s Capri (although it jumped lanes so totally out of Brian’s control).  It’s been a good car for Ed.

   
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NSR Mosler ‘Club Challenge’ #6

   
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Track turned down to 11V prompted by the sign in the cupboard, lest we forget…
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These are always a little skittish during their first race, as we saw with one or two cars, it’s as though the tyres need the surface top skin removing because they always go much better on their 2nd and especially 3rd runs.
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• Mike was quick again, not quite as fast as last time but did win at least one heat.
  
• Kev started in Blue lane and not quite as quick as normal, the ‘first race’ syndrome showing the tyres needed a race.
  
• Andy also suffered in his first race but made up for it later on setting the fastest lap of all and at least one heat win.
  
• Brian mainly losing out in Yellow lane but definitely on heat winning pace at least once.
  
• With the top four cars not really that far off each other, luck and consistency come into it.  Chris was the one chasing the top four cars but strange drifting in left hand corners ruined his racing rhythm, hopefully down to one of the pod side screws found to be tight when it should be loose (post race test definitely looked better).
  
• Gav & Ed were really close at the end, Gav only getting good controller settings by accident as he picked up the club controller used by the previous person…”full brakes and sensitivity at 2 O’clock”...it seemed to suit his driving well.
  
• Looking at his other scores it looks like Ed lost a couple of laps in Red lane but was consistent in the other lanes.
  

   

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Next week is a special theme night, an Italian Cars ‘Proxy’ event…it’s an expanded version of our recent ‘Le Manx’ night which was absolutely brilliant!