Slot.it Challenge is a UK slot racing championship sponsored by Slot.it and Pendle Slot Racing and held between April and November since 2006.
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Format
The format of the championship has never changed since the start in 2006. With the race event always held on a Sunday, the Saturday is used as timed practice for visiting drivers, with home drivers not allowed to practice on the Saturday. The hosting venue also holds a meal at the most popular and closest hotel to the track on the Saturday evening after practice. For racing every driver does a three-minute stint on every lane. Then these laps totaled to give an overall position, and these positions used to determine what lane a driver will be on for step-up finals. The winning driver after the step up finals is awarded fifty points, with the second driver taking forty-nine points etc. This was the same for the juniors up until the end of the 2008 season, from then on the juniors winning points were reduced to twenty points with the second junior taking nineteen points etc.
At the end of the season, if a driver has completed all the events then his worst round will be erased, with a driver competing in all but one event keeping all his points.
Venues
The starting venue since 2007, Pinewood only held the one event on its "old" track in 2007. Since it got a new 105 ft, gloss surfaced track in 2008. This track has always been one of the hardest to master within the racing weekend. The tracks main features are a very short start, a high-speed banked 180 degree corner and a technical and challenging section top section of track. In the first season of racing, the winning pace was completing 24.4 laps within the three minutes. However, in 2010, the winning pace is now up to 28.7 laps within three minutes, giving an average lap time increase of 1.1 seconds over 3 minutes.
2006
Seniors top three
Juniors top three