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The real-life Birkett Relay is a fabulously quirky format and arguably the biggest annual event on the UK motorsport calendar in terms of cars and drivers...



The WHO Birkett Relay format is a simplified version that allows us to run six different classes during the day, with all six teams in with a shout of the Handicap win...

   

Here are the teams for 2025, with Mike's Maximus Gastropodus replacing Terry's Laps in Concentration...

   

And these are the six classes we'll be running...

   

Each hour is a separate 57 minute race in RCS64. When the power is cut, each team's car is replaced where it stops by their car for the next hour.

The first running of the WHO Birkett Relay used a Silverstone-inspired track, but we made the decision to run a new track each year and giving us six-hours to learn and maybe master it. For 2025, Simon has worked on this layout, based on the Monaco street circuit...

   

Like our other Digital Saturdays, this event is not for beginners - we do ask that all racers have successfully completed at least one Wednesday evening Nascar team race & Legends pairs race.