12/10/2026
Our Pedal car team raced the final race of the 2026 British Pedal Car Championship on Saturday at Curborough Sprint Track in the Midlands.
Well done to everyone for a great race. Lots of lovely fun and friendly racing was had!
A huge well done to our Chitty #3 team - Mark, Alex, Alexander and Sven who finished 2nd securing 2nd in the championship and the number 2 on their car next year! An injured Joe B and race injured Alexander got to watch from the side lines as their team sped round the track for 113 miles, finishing just 5 laps behind Apollo and completing the fastest lap of 60 secs! Thank you also goes to Matt M who was part of this team for the 24 hour race and helped achieve this position 🙂
A massive congratulations to our black car #1 team Joe and Joe who raced the full season duo. They finished 7th at Curborough having completed 103 miles, came 6th in the overall championship and are now British Duo Champions. Thankyou to James and Dan for stepping in when Joe S couldn't make Blackbushe.
Next was our Pink Panther team #11 who finished 8th at Curborough just 5 laps behind car #1. They were flying - Cliff commented he's never seen this car go so fast! Well done to Stuart, Andrew, Brian and Elliot. An amazing effort. This leads to the car finishing 9th in the championship so taking the number from this years silver car team! Thanks to Matt M, Paul N, Martin,
Ryan, Simon, Andre, Chris M, Tom, Michael, and Sven for helping make a great team over the year.
But the silver car #9 came 9th this weekend finishing on the same lap and just 38 seconds behind Pink Panther #11! It was lovely to have Barry back on the team joining Jeff, Dan and Richard. This leads to them being in 8th place in the championship! A new and better number for next year 🙂 Thanks also to Sven, Cliff, Tom, Rob and Mark for all their efforts to get the silver car speeding round the tracks this year!
Our ladies team in the little yellow car #12 included Sally returning to the team after a year and a knee op, Alison also coming back after a year away from us, Judith who has been an amazing 2026 racing partner - Steph and Judith have raced duo 3 times this year, and Steph, our team manager. They raced as best as they could and finished 11th on Saturday. This means they finished 10th in the championship on the same points (and one position ahead) of Oddballs! Very impressive. But they also come away as British Ladies Champions. Thanks also go to Emma-Jane, Nathalie, Carrie, and Kirsten who joined us for the 24 hour race in June. It couldn't have been done without you all!
The Mean Machine #45 first appeared at Blackbushe last month where Cliff and newbie Andre duo-ed both days. Well, they came back for more and completed 85 miles finishing in 14th place. This leads them after 3 races to be 17th in the championship. Well done to them both! Nothing like being thrown in at the deep end Andre lol
Last but definitely not least is the blue car #21. This started as a solo by Jason back in March who broke his elbow in April. Duo-ed by Richard and Paul in May, solo-ed by Jeff at Blackbushe and then Jason returned all mended to duo with Paul for the season finale. They completed 76 miles in the 6 hours finishing in 19th place giving them 24th in the championship!
What a finish to the 2026 season. I hope everyone enjoyed this year and had fun because that, above everything else, is what we race for. Thankyou to everyone again for being part of the Royce family. We look forward to doing it all again next year!
