[Kevan]

Race report and results - 15th January 2026 - British & German cars (Battle of Britain) - 

   
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Another amazing turnout tonight, eleven racers!... and it was great to see Paul back again.
…a lot of extra work organising the racing but a room full of banter and happy racers made a great atmosphere.
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Tonight was the first theme night of the year, this one is for British and German cars (no open wheelers), we all raced one of each and the cars were mixed for both sessions of racing.
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What we’ve done in the past is 5 qually laps then select the teams.  With 22 cars this would take far too long so I’ve used everyone’s fastest lap to seed the cars.
Initially with 22 cars there would have to be 11 teams of 2 but Paul had to go early and didn’t race the second round, this meant 21 cars which is much easier to create more teams.
7 teams of 3 cars is the format.  To try and equal things, teams were selected like this:
Team 1. Fastest car, slowest car
Team 2. Second fastest car, second slowest car
Team 3. Third fastest car, third slowest car
…down to Team 7.
The last 7 cars were teamed up like this:
Fastest car joined Team 7.
Second fastest car joined Team 6.
…down to Team 1.
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One of the good things about these theme nights is we see cars never raced before and tonight was no exception.
There was a great variety of car types and eras, the smallest was Kev’s Mini, dwarfed by the various Bentley’s, LMP’s and GT1’s.
Jamie’s Aston Martin DBR1 was a great purchase and will see plenty of action this year including the Targa Florio.
Jacks big Bentley was new to the track, joined by Mike’s Bentley and SlotIt Mercedes.
Macaulay’s Spirit Radical was a lovely smooth runner.
Terry’s black Audi LMP saw race action for the first time and went well.
T.J. and Jake borrowed club cars and both had good racing
Paul borrowed a Rover SD1 from Andy and enjoyed racing it
Brian raced his favourite, the Porsche 956/962 whilst Andy raced an often-seen-but-never-raced Aston Martin XJ220
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The club BMW 320i’s saw action again, they’re going to get some mileage this year!
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Another great nights racing, the newcomers are coming on in leaps and bounds and really enjoy racing each other in the specially created heats.
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…enjoy the two videos!


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Next week is F1 & Grand Prix followed by Saloons (Small Saloons, Saloons, Group 5 Saloons)


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