Chapter I · Section 02

Rules & Scoring

Fifteen categories. Points add together with no overall cap. One of them can double your entire tally.
The car card · scored once, before you set off
Category 01

Purchase savings

Reward for buying cheap. Every £10 under the £1,000 cap earns a point. A £300 banger banks 70 before it turns a wheel; a £950 hero starts on 5.

(1000 − price) ÷ 10
Category 02

Engine size

Every 100cc adds a point. A three-litre straight-six starts on 30; a 1.4 diesel starts on 14. Bring the ridiculous barge you always wanted.

cc ÷ 100
Category 03

Age

One point per year old. A 2001 car scores 25. A 1988 barge scores 38. Rewards patina and character.

2026 − year
Category 04

Rarity

Settled by data, not opinion. Look your model up on How Many Left — it reports how many are currently taxed in the UK. Rarer means more points. No negatives.

  • Under 100 taxed — 50
  • 100 to 500 — 40
  • 500 to 2,000 — 30
  • 2,000 to 10,000 — 20
  • 10,000 to 50,000 — 10
  • 50,000 and up — 0
Category 05

Body work

Graded concours-style at Shoreham on Saturday, right before the auction. Trip damage counts. No negatives — the worst car simply scores nothing.

  • Concours — you could show it: 50
  • Showroom — smart and straight: 30
  • Everyday — scuffs and stone chips: 20
  • Rotten — rust, filler, kerbed wheels: 10
  • Not legal — shouldn't have driven that here: 0
Category 06

Interior

Same five grades, cabin only. Cracked leather, missing switchgear, foot-well wrappers, smoke smell — all count.

  • Concours — pristine: 50
  • Showroom — tidy, well-kept: 30
  • Everyday — used and honest: 20
  • Rotten — grubby and unpleasant: 10
  • Not legal — safety issue: 0
On track
Category 07

Curborough lap time

Thursday morning, top loop only. Every second under 60 gains 5 points; every second over loses 5. A 55-second lap is worth +25.

(60 − seconds) × 5
Category 08

Donington lap time

Wednesday afternoon, proper circuit. Same idea, longer benchmark. A 1:55 lap is +25. A 2:10 lap is −50.

(120 − seconds) × 5
Category 09

Donington top speed

GPS top speed on the longest straight, against your car's factory figure. Hit factory and score 50; every mph short costs one point, never below zero. Favours slow cars — a Panda hitting its 89mph is far easier than an M3 hitting 155.

max(0, 50 − (factory − actual))
Category 10 · Chaos bonus

Donington flags

Flags are prizes, not penalties. And there's a game-breaker attached: collect at least one of each colour in the session and your entire tally doubles. Cautious drivers cannot win this event.

  • Yellow flag: +10 each
  • Red flag: +30 each
  • Black flag: +50 each

Full house (one of each): final tally × 2.

Across the four days
Category 11 · Penalty

Reliability

Cars will break. This is the only category that can properly hurt you.

  • Roadside stop, moving again within 30 minutes: −10 each
  • Extended stop, moving again within an hour: −20 each
  • Terminal failure — car goes to We Buy Any Car and you jump in with another team: −500, and no further track events
Category 12

Peer vote · favourite car

Every driver picks their favourite of the other five cars. Each vote received is worth 10 points. Vote for the one you'd actually want to drive home.

votes × 10
Category 13

Style

Up to 100 points for turnout, theme, livery, costume and storytelling. Decided by peer vote at the end of the trip through the voting panel on this site.

Peer vote · 0 to 100
Category 14

Auction result / We Buy Any Car

Saturday morning at Shoreham. What your car sells for, minus what you paid. Every £5 profit is a point; every £5 loss costs one. If your car died and went to WBAC instead, that price counts the same way.

(sale − price) ÷ 5
Rules of engagement
Category 15

Shared cars, shared laps

For any team of two sharing a car, both entrants must be in the car during timed events — the Curborough sprint and the Donington lap. No swapping to the lighter driver for the fast lap while the other watches from the pit wall. Any weight or handling penalty you took on by pairing up applies to your scoring laps.

The solo entrants, Ryan and Seb, are exempt for obvious reasons.

Tie-breaker

Highest combined track score wins the tie. Still level? Fewest reliability points.