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Official Start line photos from Madeira Drive for the inaugural Brighton to London Future Car Challenge can be found here: http://gallery.sussexsportphotography.com/a.tlx?k=h9azg9jA variety of the fast, furious, a rock star and generally well mannered engineer types gathered at Madeira Drive in Brighton for the inaugural Brighton to London Future Car Challenge.

n a refreshing rebirth of the original emancipation run (now known as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run) which was originally instigated to read off the latest in car technology and keep a change in the law, (way back in 1896) we now take the like kind of thing, but driving in the contrary direction.These years the torah on revenue of vehicles is changing, and the public and environment we live in is changing, so the technology we are driving is also changing. With necessity being the father of invention, the existence of transport is changing and this run brought the latest real world prototypes and production cars to the streets to designate us what they can do (even on the A23 traffic through Brixton.You can show more all around it on the FCC website here: http://www.futurecarchallenge.comas well as see a good entry list . The Media scrum at the first line was pretty tight - but at 8am on a cold dark Saturday morning in November there wasn't much else going on in Brighton to be honest. Certainly not that many Pink Floyd band members driving sport cars about, which is likely why Sky TV did a last audience and air of Nick Mason (see below).

The most radical micro car entry was the Gordon Murray design T.25 - set out like the three seater McClaren roadster from a few days back, just a bit more compact.

The Tata Indica Vista had a good point in the last results and awards as the most economical small passenger car.

The amusingly (?) labelled "Slater Stallworthy" as drivers drove off in car 47 for what car?, and was unfortunately the sole car to falter and stagger off the line. Don't show anyone that video guys...

Whilst most of the cars did try to continue as much fire as possible off the starting business by accelerating at almost tidal speads, I'm thoroughly pleased to say that the Tesla sprot cars all decided to present what an electric sport car can do off the line, and dissapeared off up Madeira drive (below the upper limit) in near silence. which was very Rock star...

This was the car that won the overall challenge this year - a pre-production prototype electric vehicle from VW. The Low e-motion Golf.

On an interesting note, John Hilton of Flybrid Technologies was on the judging panel, and his road car flywheel technology being mechanical (and hence more effective than those old chemical battery storage thingys) is under development with the Jaguar FHSPV system . I'm looking forward to seeing one of those on the starting line next year, as a product ready vehicle. Don't let us down John, and get up with an alternator-based retrofit so we can all save 20% fuel. Right, a few five thousand or so veteran car run photos to catalogue from the Sun now - it will be here http://gallery.sussexsportphotography.com/a.tlx?k=24fzg9i when it's ready - hopefully wednesday. Back to running events next weekend, although the Billericay 10k gallery from Sunday can now be found here - if that's what you were waiting for ! http://gallery.sussexsportphotography.com/a.tlx?k=3nxzg7f Until next time Anthony