Showcase Challenge 2025 - RACING CARS

The theme for the 2025 Showcase challenge is ‘Racing Cars’. The intent is to celebrate the history, spectacle, performance, technology and excitement of cars used in competitive, legal, motor racing.  To be eligible the subject must be a racing car.
The following definitions will be used to determine the eligibility of each model:

Car: A road vehicle with a driver, an engine and four single wheels, generally designed to carry either just the driver or the driver plus a small number of passengers. The vehicle may also be capable of carrying a small amount of luggage or cargo.

Race: A legal, organised motor-sport competition to determine best speed over a set route, track or circuit or between specific locations. Such races can be in the form of a direct ‘side by side’ race or in the form of time-trials.

Racing Car: A high-performance car specifically designed or altered for competitive racing on tracks or circuits.
With these definitions we can distinguish between eligible and ineligible subjects.

Eligible:
  • Any car designed for legal racing
  • Any car modified for legal racing
  • Any car specifically marked for legal racing
Eligible subjects include:
  • Formula 1 (or other formula) cars
  • Rally cars
  • Drag cars
  • Stock cars
  • Sprint cars
  • Vintage or Veteran racing cars
  • Home-made racing cars
  • Racing ‘go karts’
  • Light commercial vehicles with four single wheels, e.g. utes, traybacks, vans, SUV’s modified for legal organised motorsport races.
  • Fictional or ‘What if’ vehicles that match the criteria above
  • Other vehicles that match the intent and spirit of the competition
Ineligible:
  • Illegal street racing cars
  • Racing trucks – including monster trucks
  • Vehicles with fewer than four wheels
  • Vehicles with more than four wheels
  • Vehicles used for record-setting rather than racing ‘per-se’
  • Cars used in ‘races’ that do not determine speed, such as charity events, novelty rallies or demolition derbys
  • Support vehicles associated with racing but not competing in a race.

To ensure eligibility please choose a subject which clearly falls within these criteria.  If you wish to build a model that you believe ‘fits the intention of the challenge’ but falls outside the strict letter of the eligibility guidelines above, then please contact [email protected] for a ruling.  Please also note that if you choose a subject which is not visibly & obviously a racing car we may request documentation to prove it was used for racing.