[Kevan]

Race report and results - 25th August 2025 - F1 followed by NSR Mosler ‘Club Challenge’ #8
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Only three of us tonight for one reason or another… but a nice surprise later on…
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Brian turned up early tonight, the extra track time he spent to great use as he had time to experiment with his SlotIt controller.  It turned out he’d been using it in a different ‘mode’ than he was used to.  Switching over to ‘linear’ mode the same as Kev’s SlotIt controller, he suddenly found much more control and logical adjustments and soon had some cars flying round much faster than before.
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Mike turned up with his NSR F1 and Club Mosler which meant we had enough for full heats…but no marshalls… “TRACK!” would be called when one of us deslotted then we’d all stop until the car was on track again.
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F1 (300 second heats)

   
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All three of us chose NSR F1’s which meant we’d be racing the same cars all night.
The advantage of fewer numbers means more track time.  We had three 5 minute heats and yes there were quite a few “TRACK!” calls.
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Part way through the F1 races we had a visitor, well known to Brian, Jamie remembers the track at the Summerland site and was pleasantly surprised by the four tracks we have and can’t wait to get cars and get started. 

   
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NSR Mosler ‘Club Challenge’ #8 (500 second heats)

   
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With two rounds remaining of this year's championship, it was decided to count them both a double points with tonight's scores counting as two rounds.
With Kev not eligible for championship points and only Brian & Mike to race for points, the minimum either would collect tonight was 18 points (two rounds of 9 points) which would change the look of the championship table.
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All three of us were managing sub-six second hot laps later on as the tyres always improve after the first race and the top skin of rubber is worn away.
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“How long left?” asked Brian pushing hard to stay in the lead…
“About four minutes”
“What, how long are the races?”
“I can’t remember, I know it was in hundreds of seconds… just pretend it’s a three minute race”
500 seconds is 8 minutes 20 seconds which does seem a long time as we normally race for 200 seconds.
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We had some close races, too close on occasions and in the end Brian took the double maximum points whilst Mike took double 2nd place points.
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Despite the small turnout we had relatively few pauses for marshalling and plenty of track time.

   

Championship Table

   
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When told what we were racing next week (Small Saloons), Jamie said “does anyone have a Granada?...”


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Next week is Group 5 followed by Small Sports/Saloons