[Kevan]

Race report and results - 11th August 2025 - Battle of Britain

   
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The theme tonight was a British car and a German car as your two choices, anything as long as it wasn’t an open wheeler (F1 for example).
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In the past we’ve run 5 qually laps then picked teams based on fastest laps… an idea that was always flawed with the possibility of sandbagging…
…to save time and allow longer races, there was no qually session, instead the cars were mixed and raced for five minute heats and teams would be chosen using the age-old method of fastest + slowest in one team, second fastest/slowest in another team etc.
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I forgot to mention, last week we had two surprise visitors, this week we had another surprise as Geoff walked in to warm hand shakes and a welcome back.  It’s been a tough year for Geoff and tonight he enjoyed racing his cars, and the club banter.
Geoff was brave tonight, a PowerSlot Polo (it’s quick too with a NSR King 21 motor!) and his gold leaf Lola LMP.  The Lola had a breakdown half way through the evening and was swapped for Andy’s Jaguar XJ12C proxy car.
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Just looking through the list of cars tonight, six of them were/are proxy cars.
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Andy’s two cars were proxy cars, a Kremer Porsche that’s recently returned after finishing the last proxy and a McLaren Elva that is soon to be shipped out to the next proxy.
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Ed also raced a pair of proxy cars, a Porsche 904GTS and a Jaguar XK120.
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Kev raced one proxy car (BMW V12 LMP) and the big Jaguar Mk7.
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Brian was always going to be racing his SlotIt Audi R8C and his other car was possibly going to be a Mini but instead opted for a McLaren 720.
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We started the racing, five minute heats and as expected there were some good races to watch (we were marshalling, honest).
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The team results sheet shows each car's scores with five teams of two cars.

   
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Next week is Club BMW 320i’s followed by Sports