Park Lane Racing was a British

United Kingdom

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 auto racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

 team formed in 1991 by racing driver and principal of the Park Lane Leasing vehicle company, Roland Dane, in partnership with Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 driver Derek Warwick

Derek Warwick

Derek Stanley Arthur Warwick is a British former racing driver from England. He raced for many years in Formula One, but never won a Grand Prix. During the early 1980s he was thought more likely to achieve World Championship success than his contemporary Nigel Mansell, but a series of wrong...

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The team initially ran a pair of Honda Civic V-Tec

Honda Civic

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 cars in the British Group N Championship for Dane along with James Kaye

James Kaye

James Kaye is a British auto racing driver. He has been a stalwart competitor of Hondas in various championships since 1995, and has had 2 lengthy spells in the BTCC...

. For 1992, they competed in the British Touring Car Championship

British Touring Car Championship

The British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom. The Championship was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and has run to various rules over the years – "production cars", then FIA Group 1 or 2 in the late 1960s...

 with a single Toyota Carina

Toyota Carina

Released in Japan August 1977, the next-generation Carina was available in Germany in December 1977 and in other European countries during 1978. In most markets it was fitted with the same 1,588 cc 2T engine as its predecessor. In the Carina, an output of was claimed...

 for Kaye. A successful season saw Kaye win the TOCA Challenge Cup for independents and finish tenth in the overall championship. A year later the team ran as the official Toyota junior team and entered a second car for Bobby Verdon-Roe

Bobby Verdon-Roe

Bobby Verdon-Roe is a British racing driver who has raced in various formats of motor sport throughout his career.-Racing Career:...

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Dane and Warwick went on to form the Triple 8 Race Engineering

Triple 8 Race Engineering

Triple Eight Race Engineering is an auto racing team formed in 1996 to design, build and race Vauxhalls on behalf of the General Motors brand in the British Touring Car Championship . A close working alliance has developed during a decade of success and Triple Eight is now Vauxhall's technical...

team in 1996.