[Kevan]

Race report and results - 29th January 2026 - NSR Mosler ‘Club Challenge 2026’ #1 followed by TV & Film cars - 
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Twelve of us tonight is starting to become a regular thing… with such a good spread of experience we’re seeing three groups that regularly race amongst each other which is good for everyone.
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NSR Mosler ‘Club Challenge 2026’ #1… plus other Sports cars

   

• Four ‘Club Challenge’ entrants eligible tonight, Brian, Chris, Ed & Kev, raced each other.
  
• The other seven raced a variety of Modified, Prostock and Open Class Sports cars split into two groups.
  

The Moslers seemed lacking in traction tonight, the tyres taking two races to get some proper grip.  This is understandable as the cars have been sat in the cupboard for the best part of three cold months.  As we’re not allowed to put any treatment on these tyres we just have to drive through the problem until the top layer of rubber is worn through.

• Chris & Brian were very close after the first round, a couple of ‘offs’ for Brian put paid to catching Chris or Kev.  Ed did well again with a result only beaten by Jamie’s Mosler in the other group.
  
• In the end Kev won comfortably from Chris who was comfortably ahead of Brian & Ed.
  

The main group of cars were the Sports cars racing separately from the ‘Club Challenge’ guys.

• The quickest was Jamie with his bright orange (it’s ‘HIS’ colour apparently) Mosler and getting into the 5.8’s, he was super happy.
  
• Macaulay and Jack finished a fraction of a lap apart overall, racing in different groups, Jack winning all his heats, Macaulay winning one of his.
  
• The next three cars were also really close at the end, Jake, Paul & T.J.
  Jake’s Fly Porsche was the big surprise, it’s not a prostock car, it’s just a basic one-piece chassis that’s well setup for racing.  He did well to finish ahead of Paul’s Racer Porsche 935 and T.J.’s NSR Audi, it took nearly a race for TJ to get the controller setting right…(a racers tip, write them settings down in a little book).
  
• Terry raced his SlotIt Audi R8C well but it looks like it needs rear tyres with more grip.
  

   

TV & Film Cars …plus other Scalextric cars

   

• With two new eligible cars, Jack & Jake joined the regulars with the Fast & Furious RX7 and Joker cars listed with other well known cars from film & screen.  They finished a couple of seconds apart overall, behind Ed’s Batmobile.
  
• Ahead of them was Chris’s Bond Lotus and Kev’s huge ‘Bluesmobile’.
  
• All five of these cars are Standard cars.
  
• Two Modified cars, Macaulay’s Knightrider K.I.T.T. and Brian’s Dukes of Hazzard Dodge Charger (Chris said something about it needing a ramp to jump over)
  
• The other four cars were Scalextric - Paul raced a race prepped club Ferrari which he enjoyed racing (I think he was surprised how nicely a basic Scaley car can go), T.J racing a shapely Pagani Zonda winning one heat to a round of applause, Jamie going much better than he expected with the Scaley Mclaren that Macaulay didn’t want to race (he wanted to race K.I.T.T.) and getting a better overall score than Macaulay’s Knight Rider car… and Terry won the first heat of the night to a round of applause and big cheer with his Scaley GT40 that handled like a pig before the racing but a quick swap for smaller diameter front tyres got the guide fully on the track and settled the car.
  
• …Terry was also awarded the ‘50p Trophy’ for the week, well done.
  

   
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Whilst starting to race the much slower TV & Film cars, Jamie said we should have raced them first but the race calendar was purposely set up like this.
In the end it was another great nights racing, the newcomers are quickly becoming regulars and slowly but surely bringing new cars with them and doing well.
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…enjoy the two videos!

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Next week is the first time the covers come off the Rally stages as it’s Targa Florio night, one car, all four tracks… it’s going to be a night of banter!

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