The IPKC were pleased to sponsor a newly formed team, “Girls Allowed” that participated in the final round of the BPEC endurance championship on Sunday, November 3rd, hosted at Warden Law. The event saw 44 teams in differing classes scrap it out on circuit for a mammoth 6 hours!

Split over 3 classes, Girls Allowed, consisting of drivers Ami Peacock, Isabella Stansmore Wilson, and Katie Donaldson, entered the clubman group and brought home a highly respectable result of 10th position (in class) with an overall result of 30th!

With this being the first time that the girls had attempted a 6-hour endurance, the IPKC are extremely pleased with their result and look forward to next year, when we will be directly behind them once again!

On Sunday, a team of 3 girls aged 13–14 took part in the final round of the BPEC Chanpionship at Warden Law. The race was 6 hours long, and the intention was for the team to do 1 hour before changing drivers.

On the Saturday most of the practice was wet, and in this championship wet tires are not used, so it was a great learning curve driving in the wet on slicks. This is a senior championship, so they were racing senior teams with senior weight.

Isabella Stansmore Wilson was the lightest and had 41 kg of lead on the kart. They were racing in the Clubman class against 19 other teams with a total of 44!.

During the race, they got up as high as 26 overall.
The top teams do stints of 1 hour, 15 minutes to 1 hour, 20 minutes out of a tank of fuel before doing a driver change. With not knowing how long the girls could drive for, we targeted an hour, meaning we would have an extra driver change costing us a couple of laps.

Endurance racing is different from all other types of racing we have done, with strategies changing all of the time due to full course yellows, etc., so the times the drivers did went up as high as 1 hour 15 minutes, which is a lot for a 13/14 year old girl.
They managed this and kept on pace, even closing some teams down in the last hour by over a second a lap.

Eventually they finished 33/44 and 10/19 in class. As a comparison, without the extra driver change and the laps we lost doing it, we would have been 25th overall and 4th in class. A fantastic experience for all. We probably lost some time with the driver changes and refuelling, as each time we had to change all the weights to match the driver. A lot of other teams had drivers of similar weight, so that probably cost us an extra 30-45 seconds per change.

Overall, we are really happy with both the results and the experience! We would like to thank IPKC for their support as we look forward to next year!