The British Pedal Car Championship is a seven (7) round race series spread across England from late March to late September.
The races are run on a variety of tracks and in a variety of formats, from 45-minute sprints to a 24-hour race at Shenington in Oxfordshire. This meeting was the annual 100-mile endurance race on a go-kart track, which measured 525 metres.
A Pedal Car is an HPV (Human Powered Vehicle) with up to four wheels - most HPV’s have only two or three. Cars are generally designed and built by some or all of those in the racing teams.
13 teams of four competed in this round 6 meeting: 100-mile endurance race.
Conditions were miserable - the rain started just minutes before the race was due to begin (11am) and continued throughout much of the endurance race.
Last year’s winners No 2 “Apollo racing” were in pole position with team No 42 “Royce Three” and No 3 “Royce Two” next to them on the grid.
But it was defending Champion “Apollo racing” car number 2 that dominated the race. Their only real problem was their overzealous drivers occasionally spinning on the wet track in the eagerness to get pass slower cars.
In the end, it was a victory for “Apollo racing” no 2 and 25 points towards the British Championships.