Maddest race cars
Discussion
freedman said:
Ooh crap, my memory is appalling :facepalm:I can think of many in classes most of you have no idea about.
Autograss has hundreds, open wheel cars with a bike engine next to the driver, Mini Pickups with supercharged V8's in the back, Seicentos with twin bike engines in the back.
Hillclimbs are a great place to see cras that find new ways to be built.
But in modern racing I love the new Peugeot WEC car, I also loved the Deltawing and Nissan cars a few years ago,
The McMurty car that mullered Goodwood is fabulous
Autograss has hundreds, open wheel cars with a bike engine next to the driver, Mini Pickups with supercharged V8's in the back, Seicentos with twin bike engines in the back.
Hillclimbs are a great place to see cras that find new ways to be built.
But in modern racing I love the new Peugeot WEC car, I also loved the Deltawing and Nissan cars a few years ago,
The McMurty car that mullered Goodwood is fabulous
I see these sandracer brutes at Harewood hillclimb most years and they are ...er... quite remarkable. As said above, Autograss has some wild and wacky stuff , love the twin engined Mini Pick up lookalikes , and drag racing machinery is rarely even on nodding terms with convention .
As far as circuit racers go , the AVS Shadow Mk 1 was indeed wild and crazy (as above ) but my personal favourite of the genre was the mighty Chaparral 2 J with ground effect fans powered by snowmobile engine , in addition to the Chevy Big Block
As far as circuit racers go , the AVS Shadow Mk 1 was indeed wild and crazy (as above ) but my personal favourite of the genre was the mighty Chaparral 2 J with ground effect fans powered by snowmobile engine , in addition to the Chevy Big Block
In terms of not mad but interesting in Europe some of the hill guys are using highly developed turbo bike engines to get round cc limits in classes, so you have Golfs Saxo's with turbo 1.1 litre engines and 400 hp, a guy running an old A$ touring car with a 1.4 turbo Hayabusa engine, very odd. But cheaper then developing an N/A engine to the same power, some of the stuff out there revs to over 10k and decades of development.
Kim Mathers twin-engined Scirrocco rally car recently made a return,
For mad I would also suggest having a trawl through forums and picture selections of Thundersaloons and Special Saloons in the late 20th century, V8 Cortina's Carltons, Porsche 8962 engined Sierra's you name it.
Kim Mathers twin-engined Scirrocco rally car recently made a return,
For mad I would also suggest having a trawl through forums and picture selections of Thundersaloons and Special Saloons in the late 20th century, V8 Cortina's Carltons, Porsche 8962 engined Sierra's you name it.
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