Park Lane Racing was a British

auto racing Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non ...

team, formed in 1991 by racing driver and principal of the Park Lane Leasing vehicle company,

Roland Dane Roland William Surrey Dane (born 17 October 1956) is an Irish-Australian automotive businessman who is best known for co-founding motorsport teams Triple Eight Racing in Britain and Triple Eight Race Engineering in Australia, of which he was team ...

, in partnership with

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driver

Derek Warwick Derek Stanley Arthur Warwick (born 27 August 1954) is a British former racing driver, who competed in Formula One between and . In endurance racing, Warwick won the World Sportscar Championship and 24 Hours of Le Mans, both in 1992 with Peuge ...

. The team initially ran a pair of Honda Civic V-Tec cars in the British Group N Championship for Dane along with

James Kaye James Peter Kaye (born 18 February 1964 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire) 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. He won the BTCC ...

. For 1992, they competed in the

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with a single

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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

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junior team and entered a second car for

Bobby Verdon-Roe Robert Geoffrey Verdon-Roe (born 21 November 1965 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British racing driver who has raced in various formats of motor sport throughout his career. He has won Formula Renault, TVR Tuscan Challenge, TVR Tuscan and Hist ...

. Dane and Warwick went on to form the

Triple 8 Race Engineering Triple Eight Racing (888 Racing) was a motorsports team formed in 1996 as Triple Eight Race Engineering, which competed in the British Touring Car Championship and the British GT Championship. The team's original focus was to design, build an ...

team in 1996.

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