RE: Radical wins battle of Brits

[The Wookie]

As a racer I say... That was fking brave!

[williamp]

sideways sid said:

He'd had his wheatabix! - A great bit of driving.

He's always been very quick. I remember him in the 1000km at Silverstone and he was very quick indeed. A shame his career stalled. One of those "if only he had the cash..." drivers.

[Oddball RS]

900T-R said:

Bl00dy h*ll, the consequences of getting it wrong down that narrow lane at that sort of pace don't bear thinking about

Sounds down beat i know but i think this is certain to end in tears, those speeds and straw don't work together well.

[900T-R]

TBH I was thinking something along those lines too. I really hope I'm wrong...

[jjones]

wow that takes some balls and skill

[clarki]

crickey moses!!

[tjlees]

Electra said:

too bad the Ultima did not enter! might have been up there with the Radical...

Hard to say, but it would be interesting. The only comparison is on the topgear laptimes where the ariel atom 2 is 1:19.5 , ariel atom v8 1:15.1(m), radical sr3 is 1:19.1 , the Caparo T1 is 1:10.6 and the ultima GTR 720 is 1:09.9. That's a fking fast time!

Additionally ultima have now enhanced the chassis since then. It is around 25000nm/deg, so this will only improve things.

I think a Radical sr8 would definitely have any road legal car on a proper track due to its down force and race proven package. The footage from the ring is absolutely amazing. 6:48 is incredible - even more so at £62k a pop.

[MotorsportTom]

Christ almighty!

Maximum attack springs to mind. Excellent bit of footage

[chevronb37]

Just in case the severity of that last bridge is lost in the film...



And here is Robbie posing with his award for FTD.

[boxerTen]

Reminds me of this piece of mental footage onboard a Norma M20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xQkj__9v5U

[[AJ]]

Incredible drive. Telepathic reactions and a very impressive car. Utmost respect there.

[flat6buster]

boxerTen said:

Reminds me of this piece of mental footage onboard a Norma M20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xQkj__9v5U

The noise alone should remind us why we are all car nuts. Awesome.

[Grant Tuscan]

Wow. In this YouTube age there's very few things that make you go OMG. Amazingly brave drive. But very dangerous looking course, a lot of very solid big trees.

[molineux1980]

Brilliant stuff. It was a great day out all round.

[V8Dom]

Electra said:

too bad the Ultima did not enter! might have been up there with the Radical...

it was my Ultima there and i was supposed to be entered, however the track is too narrow, too bumpy for 600hp in an Ultima to be fast.

The caterham and radical are nimble and ideal to tracks like this, so next year the record will go to a Gould or pilbeam hillclimb car if someone brings one along.

the amazing fact of the radical was although he had slicks the were medium to hard compound and didnt get warm. The caterham has mega soft hillclimb tyres however was 130 hp less...

So driver ability by Robbie was very impressive.

Dom

[Electra]

Scuffers said:

Electra said:

too bad the Ultima did not enter! might have been up there with the Radical...

no chance...

J4CKO said:

suffolk009 said:

why didn't Ariel play their V8?

I think, no matter what Ariel do with regards to power do it will always at a disadvantage due to not being as focused on aerodynamics and downforce.

quite apart from being totally out-classed chassis wise...

scuffers: just curious, why do you say that about the Ultima GTR?

Edited by Electra on Monday 17th June 23:56

[soad]

boxerTen said:

Reminds me of this piece of mental footage onboard a Norma M20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xQkj__9v5U

Lovely, just epic.

[Scuffers]

Electra said:

scuffers: just curious, why do you say that about the Ultima GTR?

easy, this is a spring cct, very narrow, and accuracy is everything.

whilst an Ultima may well have the power to go faster, it's also somewhat bigger - more specifically wider and longer, ie, to make the chicane for example, it would have to turn more of a corner than the narrower Radical, as well as being heavier, it's not going to have the same ability to do direction changes as fast.

this is not the same as putting them head to head on an open race.

(all that said, I have still yet to see an Ultima actually perform on a cct worth talking about)

[ukaskew]

The place looks near deserted for 80% of the course. As somebody who has battled for a spot (any spot!) up the hill at Goodwood, is the CPoP worth a visit in future as an amateur photographer?

[anonymous-user]

bks the size of blood oranges. Mental!