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RACE REPORT #354 - February 7th 2026 (SCnm, CMnm)

Just Peter, Steve, O'Brie and I were present for our second 2026 event. About ninety percent of the time was spent testing and working on the many cars present. We had had an early boardroom table discussion about the Clubman class which is evolving quickly with the new Slot.It Datsuns as well as the inclusion of RevoSlot cars, these two having potentially significantly faster performance than many of our existing Clubman machines. In the interest of giving us opportunities to continue to competitively race the large number of these cars we own - many of which are not competitive with these quicker new cars - we're looking at breaking the class into three sub-groups based on time brackets. To start the process, we spent a significant amount of time running "qualifying sessions" for all the cars that were present for the class. This gave us a fair idea of the spread of lap times between all the cars tested. We plan to use this data to set the time brackets for the three sub-groups, tentatively named Clubman A, B and C.

We did run a single Slot.It Challenge race to start the actual racing off, followed by two clubman races, the first with the Slot.It Datsuns and the second with one of Peter's Escorts, Steve's Austin A40 and my BMC Mini Cooper. O'Brie did not stay for this final race as by this time we were running quite late, with the time going on towards 8:00 PM.

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The Results






Slot.It Challenge

Slot.It Challenge race 1 grid - Gordon/Nissan R89C; Peter/Jaguar XJR-10; Steve/Nissan R89C; O'Brie/Sauber-Mercedes :





Computer Slot.It Challenge race 1 results:











Clubman

Clubman race 1 grid - Gordon/Datsun 510; O'Brie/Datsun 510; Steve/Datsun 510; Peter/Datsun 510 :





Computer Clubman race 1 results:





Clubman race 2 grid - Peter/Ford Escort; Gordon/BMC Mini Cooper; Steve/Austin A40 :



Computer Clubman race 2 results:

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Overall Results





(How this is computed: https://frcforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=393)

Diversity Award
No diversity award as several drivers drove three cars.

Total Championship Points for 2026 (total of each drivers top fifteen points-scoring days):




Congratulations to the winners.


Next event's classes: To be announced.

See you on the circuit...
Gordon

Great FRC racing event as usual, despite the sparse driver turnout. The Clubman Class is really one of my facourites and judging by the number of cars present, others also feel the same. Although the races didn[t go as planned, it was great fun just driving and then doing qualifying-type timing of the Clubman cars. The two eventual races were very exciting and close and of course, a lot of fun. The Datsun 510s have really surpassed all our expectations with their performance with most, if not all showing either in practice and/or qualifying that they can get lap times of under nine seconds.
Congrats to Gordon and Peter on winning Clubman and Slot.it Challenge respectively, and to Gordon on taking the event's overall honours.
Gordon there are two errors that I see and these are as follows:
-O'Brie's Clubman car was a Datsun 210 not a 240Z
-the positions of Pete and myself in the first Clubman race should be reversed (as podium photo correctly shows).
Looking forward to the next event !
Steve

Fixed the errors Steve. Thanks for pointing them out.