2025 Statistics: Numbers Galore – Molesey Scalextric Club

2025 Statistics: Numbers Galore.

Once again your correspondent has raided his grandchildren’s pencil cases, confiscated their calculator and spent a while colouring in some pretty charts and working out some statistics. Read on and prepare to be amazed by how incredibly brilliantly or appallingly badly you raced a slot car in 2025.

As always, we start with the “I’m faster than you” charts, usually a two-horse race between Josh and Julian, but this year with Lee muscling in on the action too.

Repeating his victory of 2024, Josh again takes top spot with three class wins, but this year Julian and Lee share the runner-up spot with one win each. Congratulations Josh.

Next we come to the age-old debate about which of Molesey’s lanes is fastest and which drivers perform best in each lane.

The first chart represents the fastest laps recorded by every driver in every race run in 2025, excluding Club Cars rounds. In other words, if ten drivers raced in one race, ten fastest laps were recorded. The RevoSlot Club Cars are excluded because they varied in performance and including them would have skewed the statistics.

The Club Cars get their own chart. Unlike last year when the red car took a narrow victory over white, 31% to 30%, and the yellow car was the absolute dog of the bunch with a dismal 1%, this year yellow staged a remarkable recovery to top the list with an impressive 27%.

Now we come to individual charts for each driver detailing the lane-spread of their fastest race laps in 2025. Once again, the most unbalanced driver of all was Josh, his love affair with red lane showing no signs of ending. Far from it. This year it reached a staggering 68%, up from 59% in 2024 and 39% in 2023.

At the other end of the scale, David is once again the year’s club tart, seemingly not caring which slot he sticks his guide in, although it was a close-run thing, Graham, Chris, Mario and Nigel being pretty unfussy too.

And now we reach the feast of numbers first introduced in 2022; a chart still of dubious value which tries to illustrate how consistent a driver’s lap times are within a race.

For each race this year a ‘Consistency Score’ has been calculated, which is a driver’s fastest lap expressed as a percentage of his average lap. For example, if his fastest lap in a race is 9.500 seconds and his average lap 10.000, then his consistency score for that race is 95%.

The chart is enhanced by weeny little arrows and extra columns so you can see whether you’re becoming more or less consistent. After 2024 when most drivers improved their score, you’d be forgiven for thinking that improvements would slow and some drivers might even fall back a tiny bit, but no, you’d be wrong. This year it’s an almost clean sweep of improvements. With the exception of Julian, who’s consistency personified and equalled his score of last year, everyone improved. The reasons for that can be endlessly argued, but there’s no denying that the competitive nature of Molesey is pushing everyone to ever greater heights. Proof, if ever any were needed, that competition improves the breed.

The consistency score is just a bit of fun, so don’t read too much into it. If your score is 99.99% but you can’t lap faster than 12 seconds when everyone else is doing 8s, you’re still, bluntly, rubbish, just unusually consistent at being rubbish. All that really matters is who crosses the finish line first, but since that honour eludes most of us most of the time, a consolation prize is your consistency score, which will either confirm or deny that actually you’d be truly brilliant if only you could find a bit more speed from somewhere.

Drivers’ average consistency scores are shown in the table above, with individual race scores detailed in the large table below. Make of them what you will. Clearly crashes add time to a lap, race stoppages break a driver’s rhythm and moaning at a marshal for not reslotting a car in less than a nanosecond can destroy concentration, all of which will affect the race average, so the consistency score reflects not only the ability of a driver to repeatedly lap close to his fastest lap, but also how prone he is to crashing, how well he recovers from race stoppages, and how good he is at biting his tongue when he’s knocked off in a corner. DNFs and individual race scores lower than 80% have been discarded so as not to skew the overall score.

If you’re peering at this on a tiny smartphone screen, click the button below to see the fully-detailed table, although bear in mind that you’ll need either a magnifying glass or to do a lot of scrolling.

Following on nicely from the Consistency Score, we have a new delight for 2025, the Table of Deviance, where arguably being more deviant than anyone else has more street cred than the boring vanillas for whom deviance is something they spend every Thursday evening trying extremely hard to minimise. Quite simply, it’s the three best and three worst heat deviation times achieved during 2025.

So, step forward Roger, this year’s Mr Deviant, and Chris, 2025’s Mr Vanilla. Chris gets a polite round of applause, Roger gets a season ticket to Madam Neil’s Dungeon of Depravity, where he can enjoy as many 81.968-second sessions of full-on deviance as he can tolerate.

And finally, before we get to the results of Molesey’s official 2025 Drivers and Class Championships (which anyone with at least one eye on this website will already have seen on the Championship Standings page) we have some Average Points tables, which are exactly what they say the are: the average number of points per race which each driver scored. There’s an overall table which covers all races, and five class tables.

Sadly these aren’t championships, so to make up for that, please give a loud round of applause to Julian for topping the overall and four class tables, and much more modest applause to Lee for a single class win.