Suggestion for a new racing series

[Sebastian Tombs]

Idly musing at breakfast this morning I thought “why isn’t there a racing series for small van-based cars?
Specifically the Renault Kangoo, Citroën Berlingo and Peugeot Partner.

I’m calling it Formula Kalingo.

The cars are plentiful, cheap and lightweight. They could carry all your spares to the circuit, there’s plenty of space for sponsorship and signwriting, they would lean entertainingly, and they come with the dents already present.

What’s not to like?

How do we make this happen?

[Zetec-S]

Instead of racing overalls all the drivers could wear hoodies (with hood up instead of a helmet) and smoke a vape?

[bergclimber34]

Can bangers,already a thing, rather useless to do much else with tbh

[jeremyc]

It's been done with a VW Caddy previously which put up a good show in the series against regular cars.

[loskie]

And 2CVs

and

Ssang yong pick ups

https://www.parkers.co.uk/vans-pickups/news/2017/s...

Copying the Holden Aussie Ute racing maybe

[NoUserNameAvailable]

Just what is needed. Yet another series to thin out the pool of drivers even more and reduce the available track time for other series. UK racing needs to contract in terms of the number of series not expand IMO.

[bigothunter]

NoUserNameAvailable said:

Just what is needed. Yet another series to thin out the pool of drivers even more and reduce the available track time for other series. UK racing needs to contract in terms of the number of series not expand IMO.

I am always surprised by how much spare money is still floating around to enable amateur competition. We set up a small company to fund entry level club racing. Very expensive game these days.

Suspect potential club racers now support track days instead. Shame really

[FredericRobinson]

jeremyc said:

It's been done with a VW Caddy previously which put up a good show in the series against regular cars.

I saw a Caddy win a VW cup race at Oulton, it was a good fun series, got more boring later when it became higher standard and was just a procession of identical golfs and siroccos

[bigothunter]

Race series for Sierra P100 pick-ups was run several years ago. Seemed to be reasonable grid sizes but the series didn't last very long.

Any space for historic pick-ups?

[Thundersports]

bigothunter said:

Race series for Sierra P100 pick-ups was run several years ago. Seemed to be reasonable grid sizes but the series didn't last very long.

Any space for historic pick-ups?

That was back in the 80s. My understanding was that Ford had an excess amount of P100 pick ups and through Brands Hatch Leisure having a tie up with Ford launched a race series. The series mainly ran at truck meetings and was won by F5000 star of the past Keith Holland who hadn't raced for over 10 years!

[quigonjay]

A series for trans only people, could call it the Trans-Am challenge