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“ The paddock is open to everybody, so you get to touch the trucks and talk to the drivers, and kids love trucks! In fact, a lot of people, although they drive on the roads, do not actually realise how big these things are until they are standing right up next to them – and when they see them on track, it is jaw-dropping!
“ We have got a great mix of experienced and new drivers and people happily get their hands dirty to help each other out. It is that camaraderie that makes it so good, and we have even got one driver from Finland, which shows the quality of the field. We would love to have larger grids, but they are capped at 20 for safety reasons.”
At over two-and-a-half metres tall, a typical race truck weighs in at between 5.3 and 6.5 tonnes. To put that in context, a current British Touring Car tops out at around 1.3 tonnes while a British F4 car is 600kg – including the driver.
To propel such heavy machines around a racetrack requires very powerful engines – and the units inside these trucks produce up to 1,300bhp and around 5,000 newton metres of torque. That makes them the most powerful vehicles on British race circuits – even more than F1. Only the drag strip at Santa Pod has machines with more brake horsepower.
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Revolution- May 2025