While Nico Rosberg was winning in Monza some 1300 KM’s away, the British Pedal Car Championship (BPCC) round six (6) was quietly taking place. Not much glitz or glamour was to be found at the Camberley kart track in South-East England, only a bunch of dedicated cycle enthusiasts in rather unusual looking machines.
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 measuring 525 metres.
A Pedal Car is an HPV (Human Powered Vehicle) with four wheels - most HPV’s have only two or three. Cars are generally designed and built by some or all of the people in the racing teams.
19 teams of four competed in this round 6 meeting: 100-mile endurance race.
Most teams had four riders with additional members who provided support in the pits. Teams of men, women, and even several Scouts (14-16 age group) battled it out for bragging rights and points towards the main Championship.
Some of the pedal cars had been made from agricultural scraps whilst others are a lot more sophisticated and refined.
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