Warwick
Round 2
Overall Results
Final classification for SEKQLD Round 2, Warwick. 10 teams contested the 6-hour race on the 1.03 km circuit. BR Motorsport finished 10th on 259 laps, 133 laps off the leader after a major incident at lap 106. Outright pace was P2 in the field: a 50.068s best lap, just 0.047s slower than the race winner.
| Pos | # | Team | Total Time | Laps | Best Lap | Gap to Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #66 | Force Phantom FASTEST LAP | 6:01:19.262 | 392 | 50.021s | — |
| 2 | #397 | CASA Racing | 6:01:52.500 | 385 | 50.410s | 7 laps |
| 3 | #787 | ShapeCUT Racing | 6:01:46.457 | 382 | 51.234s | 10 laps |
| 4 | #73 | Twomota Racing Development | 6:01:56.730 | 382 | 50.601s | 10 laps |
| 5 | #00 | Adrenalin Sports | 6:01:33.440 | 381 | 50.698s | 11 laps |
| 6 | #64 | Alpha Racing Team | 6:02:05.669 | 370 | 50.525s | 22 laps |
| 7 | #3 | Team Fange | 6:01:30.410 | 367 | 51.889s | 25 laps |
| 8 | #95 | Project 5FIVE3 | 6:02:03.506 | 351 | 50.438s | 41 laps |
| 9 | #42 | GF Motorsports | 6:02:02.648 | 347 | 50.110s | 45 laps |
| 10 | #49 | BR Motorsport ★P2 BEST LAP | 6:01:57.560 | 259 | 50.068s | 133 laps |
A Race in Two Halves
Round 2 ran without a qualifying session. Grid order was randomised: each team drew a numbered ping-pong ball from a bag and started in that slot. BR Motorsport drew P7. The first half of the race was a textbook recovery drive from grid 7 to a podium-realistic P2. The second half was the consequence of one moment at lap 106: a Safety Car restart, a crash on Turn 2, and a pit-lane repair lasting 1 hour 53 minutes. BR returned with a damaged kart, 131 laps down, and could not get those laps back over the remaining 152 racing laps, but their on-pace running was strong enough that the final gap only grew by 2 laps after the crash.
This is not a pace problem. BR's best lap (50.068s, lap 43) was the second-quickest of the entire race, only Force Phantom went faster (50.021s, lap 169). Pre-crash position trace: started P7 from the random grid draw, spun on Turn 2 of the opening lap to the back of the pack, then clawed back to P5 by lap 7, P3 by lap 10, and held P2 from lap 13 through lap 60. Outright pace was second only to Force Phantom, every other car in the field was at least 0.3s/lap slower. Without the lap-106 incident, the realistic clean-race finish was P2 overall.
Driver Performance
Thiago and Fernando shared the 259 racing laps across 5 stints. Pace stats below are computed from clean racing laps only. Pit-stop laps, drive-through laps, the lap-106 crash lap and the rain-affected window are excluded, so the per-driver numbers reflect actual on-track performance rather than race circumstance.
| Stint | Driver | Race Laps | # Laps | Best | Clean Avg | End-of-Stint Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Thiago | 1–64 | 64 | 50.068s ★ | 50.981s | Refuel + driver change |
| F1 | Fernando | 65–106 | 42 | 51.684s | 52.762s | ⚠ Crash on T2 at SC restart, 1h53m repair |
| T2 | Thiago | 107–159 | 53 | 50.162s | 50.979s | Driver change (mandatory stop 9) |
| F2 | Fernando | 160–203 | 44 | 51.475s | 52.390s | Refuel + driver change (stop 10) |
| T3 | Thiago | 204–259 | 56 | 51.005s | 51.376s | Race finish, Stint included rain → drying → dry |
Race highlights: BR held P2 overall from lap 13 through lap 60 in the opening hour after recovering from the back of the field. Both drivers turned laps inside the Sportsman class-fastest range. All 10 mandatory pit stops were executed, with several drive-throughs deliberately timed to leverage Safety Car periods and minimise relative time loss. Stint 5 covered a full rain-to-dry transition, BR adapted to changing grip cleanly. Pace progression across stints is a positive signal heading into Round 3.
Race Timeline
Key events across the 259-lap BR race. The ten mandatory pit stops were timed where possible to leverage Safety Car periods. Two unscheduled events shaped the result: the lap-1 spin, recovered from cleanly, and the lap-106 crash, which did not.
| Lap | Event | Driver | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Grid draw (random) | — | Pulled P7 from the bag · no qualifying session |
| 1 | ⚠ Spin Turn 2 | Thiago | Started P7, spun to the back of the field |
| 2–60 | Recovery drive | Thiago | Back of pack → P5 (lap 7) → P3 (lap 10) → P2 (lap 13), held P2 |
| 43 | ★ Field-P2 best lap | Thiago | 50.068s, the single fastest BR lap of the race |
| 61 | Drive-through (1 of 10 mandatory) | Thiago | — |
| 64 | Refuel + driver change | → Fernando | Mandatory stop 2 |
| 65–80 | Racing | Fernando | Holding P7–P8 |
| 81 | Drive-through (2 of 10) | Fernando | — |
| 82–94 | Racing | Fernando | — |
| 95 | Drive-through (3 of 10) | Fernando | — |
| 96–99 | Racing | Fernando | — |
| 100 | Drive-through (4 of 10) | Fernando | Leveraged the Safety Car period |
| 101–105 | Safety Car | Fernando | Neutralised, running P7 |
| 106 | ⚠ SC restart + crash on Turn 2 | Fernando | Damaged kart, counts as one of 10 mandatory stops |
| 107 | ⚠ Pit-lane repair | → Thiago | 1 hour 53 minutes off track · returned 131 laps down |
| 108–134 | Racing, damaged kart | Thiago | Pace consistent with leaders despite damage |
| 135 | Mandatory weigh-in | Thiago | Random selection · doesn't count toward 10 stops |
| 136–142 | Racing | Thiago | — |
| 143 | Refuel (stop 6) | Thiago | — |
| 150 | Drive-through (7 of 10) | Thiago | Leveraged the Safety Car period |
| 154 | Drive-through (8 of 10) | Thiago | Leveraged the Safety Car period |
| 159 | Driver change (stop 9) | → Fernando | — |
| 160–179 | Racing | Fernando | — |
| 180 | ⚠ Spin | Fernando | Minor, recovered same lap |
| 181–202 | Racing | Fernando | Best lap of stint: 51.475s |
| 203 | Refuel + driver change (stop 10) | → Thiago | 10 mandatory stops complete |
| 204–224 | Rain | Thiago | Lap times 1:03–1:45, wet conditions |
| 225–239 | Rain stopped, drying track | Thiago | Lap times improving every lap as line dries |
| 240–259 | Track dry, racing to flag | Thiago | Stint 5 best 51.005s · finished P10 |
Costly Incidents
One incident overwhelmingly defined the result. The lap-1 spin and lap-180 spin were minor, both recovered cleanly. The lap-106 crash dictated the rest of the day.
| Lap | Incident | Time Lost | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SPIN Lap-1 Turn 2 | ~10s | Started P7, spun to the back, recovered to P2 by lap 13 |
| 106 | CRITICAL SC restart + crash on Turn 2 | ~1h 53m | Damaged kart, full pit-lane repair · returned P10, 131 laps down |
| 180 | SPIN Lap-180 minor | ~3s | Recovered same lap, no position change |
| 204–239 | EXTERNAL Rain + drying track | — | Affected entire field equally · BR's wet pace was competitive |
The lap-106 crash is the entire story of the result. After returning to the race 131 laps down, BR added 152 racing laps and only lost 2 more laps to the leader, meaning their post-crash on-pace running matched the front of the field. Subtract the 1h53m repair window and the lap-count gap closes to a P2-realistic range.
Was P2 Realistic?
Best-lap headlines are easy. The harder question is whether BR's pace, applied across six hours of racing with realistic pit and Safety Car overhead, would actually produce a P2 finish. The Speedhive lap data for every team makes that testable, here's the math, with the honest caveats.
1. Race-median pace, every team
Median lap time across all clean GREEN-flag laps in the 45–60s window, pit, SC, drive-through, crash and rain laps excluded. This is each team's typical lap, not their headline.
| Pace Rank | Team | Best | P25 | Median | Mean | Clean n | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Force Phantom | 50.021s | 50.397s | 50.642s | 50.866s | 344 | P1 |
| 2 | GF Motorsports | 50.110s | 50.917s | 51.278s | 51.674s | 317 | P9 ⚠ |
| 3 | BR Motorsport ★ (blended) | 50.068s | 51.070s | 51.392s | 51.708s | 217 | P10 |
| 4 | Project 5FIVE3 | 50.438s | 51.119s | 51.409s | 51.614s | 307 | P8 ⚠ |
| 5 | Alpha Racing Team | 50.525s | 51.197s | 51.836s | 51.930s | 312 | P6 |
| 6 | CASA Racing | 50.410s | 51.318s | 51.839s | 51.942s | 329 | P2 |
| 7 | ShapeCUT Racing | 51.234s | 51.721s | 51.862s | 52.159s | 326 | P3 |
| 8 | Twomota Racing Dev. | 50.601s | 51.441s | 51.904s | 52.090s | 330 | P4 |
| 9 | Adrenalin Sports | 50.698s | 51.447s | 52.087s | 52.304s | 325 | P5 |
| 10 | Team Fange | 51.889s | 52.945s | 53.452s | 53.557s | 309 | P7 |
Read this carefully: BR's blended team median (51.39s) is the third-fastest in the field, Thiago's stints (50.95s median) are world-class, Fernando's stints (52.25s median) sit closer to mid-pack and pull it down a bit. GF Motorsports actually has a faster team median than BR (51.28s) but finished P9 because of two consecutive mechanical issues, pure bad luck. Pace alone doesn't decide finishes.
2. How the kart was driven
A direct driver-vs-driver-team comparison isn't apples to apples (other teams blend multiple drivers into their race median too). The fairer framing is each driver's race contribution and how it shaped the team's blended pace.
3. Projection: BR clean-race lap count
Race-pace alone doesn't deliver lap count, pit/SC/drive-through overhead does. The leaders' overhead averages 82–87 seconds per non-clean lap (10 mandatory stops, SC participation, opening/closing-lap effects). For BR's clean-race projection, apply this overhead pattern to BR's actual clean-pace data.
| Reference team | Their non-clean overhead | BR projected total | vs Force Phantom (392) | vs CASA actual P2 (385) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Force Phantom (P1) overhead | 87.1 s/lap × 48 laps | 388.5 laps | −3.5 (P2) | +3.5 |
| CASA Racing (P2) overhead | 82.5 s/lap × 56 laps | 387.9 laps | −4.1 (P2) | +2.9 |
| ShapeCUT (P3) overhead | 84.0 s/lap × 56 laps | 386.4 laps | −5.6 (P2) | +1.4 |
| Twomota (P4) overhead | 87.0 s/lap × 52 laps | 385.8 laps | −6.2 (P2/P3) | +0.8 |
| Adrenalin (P5) overhead | 83.8 s/lap × 56 laps | 386.5 laps | −5.5 (P2) | +1.5 |
Verdict, P2 is defensible, not guaranteed. Across the five front-running overhead patterns, BR's clean-race projection sits between 385.8 and 388.5 laps, every single projection finishes ahead of CASA's actual P2 (385 laps), and behind Force Phantom (392 laps). The margin is 1–4 laps, which is real but not commanding. The claim depends on (a) BR's clean pace data being accurate over a longer sample (validated by 217 clean laps) and (b) executing pit/SC overhead at front-running level. The lap-106 crash erased the entire margin, losing P2 wasn't a pace problem, it was a single-event problem.
Recommendations for Rd 3 Ipswich
Round 3 is the Ipswich Twilight on 30 May 2026, a 1-day event with a different format. The data from Warwick points at six actionable areas. The car and the headline pace are already there; the opportunity is in incident avoidance and driver-pace convergence.
The Big Picture
Round 2 was a hard result on paper but a strong result on pace. The lap-106 crash defined the day. Strip that single event out and the rest of the race profile reads like a podium contender's: P2 best lap, leader-pace running across 200+ laps, strong wet adaptation. Round 3 at Ipswich is the next opportunity, different track, different format, same kart.
Time Lost, Round 2
The Round 2 result reads as P10 / 133 laps down, but the pace tells a different story. BR was the second-fastest single-lap car in the entire field, including every Maxx-class entry, and held P2 for the opening 50+ laps. The clean-race finish was P2 overall; only Force Phantom had the pace to match. After the crash, on-pace running stayed at leader pace for the remaining 152 laps. The work for Round 3 is incident avoidance and driver-pace convergence; the kart, the setup, and the headline pace are already there.
In Motion
Forty seconds of Round 2 race footage from the kart, on the track at Warwick Kart Club.