Wednesday 15th June 2011

Video: 850hp Dacia Duster

Another Pikes Peak contender shakes down...

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Following on from Pikes Peak veteran Paul Dallenbach's 1307hp 'PVA-03' monster (which 'peaked' our interest in this year's running of the famous hill climb), we've spotted this video of another unlimited class contender.

This time the madman behind the wheel is reigning Andros Trophy ice racing champ Jean-Philippe Dayraut, and the car is the Dacia Duster 'No Limit'.

Now, Dacia might not be the first name you think of when it comes to extreme performance motorsport, but fortunately Dacia appears to have interpreted the 'No Limit' part of the car as 'no limit to how little the car resembles a road-going Dacia Duster'.

Thus, the spaceframe car features a fibreglass shell with huge rear wing, a 3.8-litre twin-turbo V6 taken from a Nissan GT-R but tuned to 850hp, and a bespoke Sadev six-speed sequential transmission. All of which weighs only 900kg. Could be interesting come June 26th...

 

 

[sprinter1050]

That whale tail rear wing doesn't seem to add much rear grip !

[PascalBuyens]

Oh dear... If that thing wins, you'll never hear the end of it, from all the Duster owners...

[lgomgf]

PascalBuyens said:

Oh dear... If that thing wins, you'll never hear the end of it, from all the Duster owners...

Do you really thinks Dacia owners know about pikes peak?

[Baryonyx]

I never thought I would see a Dacia that looked or sounded so incredible. Okay, so it's not a Dacia, just a madman's creation with Dacia written on it. But I still want to get in it and fly up some hillclimb tracks in it.

[anonymous-user]

sprinter1050 said:

That whale tail rear wing doesn't seem to add much rear grip !

Obviously way too small!

[mneame]

That's a bit quicker than the Dacia Duster my uncle had back in the early 90s lol.

[TheRoadWarrior]

mneame said:

That's a bit quicker than the Dacia Duster my uncle had back in the early 90s lol.

Despite the fact your uncle had a ~20year head start?

[MrTappets]

Love how fast it gets through the gears from 2:18!

[300bhp/ton]

Simply wonderful!!!!

I love stuff like this. This is what top level motorsport should be about, not the watered down and regulation restriction dross you get in most other events.

Would love to see what something like this could do round a circuit like the Ring or even the TG test track just to get a comparison of pace.

[300bhp/ton]

PascalBuyens said:

Oh dear... If that thing wins, you'll never hear the end of it, from all the Duster owners...

Suspect it's not an issue in the UK....

[ChiChoAndy]

Article said:

but fortunately Dacia appears to have interpreted the 'No Limit' part of the car as 'no limit to how little the car resembles a road-going Dacia Duster'.

Huh? It looks like a Duster... Certainly more like a duster than a Vitara looks like a vitara...

[GravelBen]

Nothing more to add.

[tonym911]

Can't see it getting to the top of the Peak without at least two pit stops for new back tyres.

[mneame]

TheRoadWarrior said:

Despite the fact your uncle had a ~20year head start?

lol. Iirc it wasn't very fast even by the standards back then. It was a fairly heavy 4x4 (switchable) with a small Renault engine.

[timbo48]

Does James May have anything to do with this?

[chuntington101]

whould love to see waht it looks like without the fireglaxss body on there! Clearly its mid engined and 4WD (cant watch the vid at work! ).

Chris.

[JuniorJet]

Hah!!! that's mental!!

900kg and 850bhp????



Make sure you bring a change of underwear...

[Gixer_fan]

Seems quite keen to spin up the rear tyres...

[pounder]

Anyone know what the intro track is called?

[300bhp/ton]

Gixer_fan said:

Seems quite keen to spin up the rear tyres...

That'd likely be the 850hp.....