Used Caterham Acadamy

[Pratty10]

Hi all,

I have been a member for a number of years, but have not posted up to this point (please be gentle).

At the weekend I attended my 2nd track day at Croft (the previous one was 3 years ago at Elvington). So far I have used my MR2 Roadster (feel free to throw a few hairdresser gags my way), which has a few modifications but standard power of around 140BHP. The MR2 has performed very well, even managing to get passed a few much faster cars. However it is massively short on power down the straights and doesn't have enough power to provoke any slides in the dry.

I feel I am now at a point where I would like to do a few more track days and need the next step up on the ladder. My question is would a used Caterham Acadamy be a good option? Or will it not be a big enough jump in power. If so what would be a good option? Roadsport, R300, Superlight R?

I would ideally want to use this on the road as well and would plan to keep it for a long time. Therefore it needs to either be something I can increase the performance of as I improve, or something with initially a little more BHP than ideal.

Cheers

-Chris

[Pratty10]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

The reason I asked if a 125bhp Caterham would be enough is at the track day at the weekend, I did hassle and eventually get let through by a Caterham.

I presume he was just a novice lacking in confidence, but it did make me worry that it would't be enough car after a couple of years, and as I said I want to keep this long term.

Cheers