Maddest race cars

[MC Bodge]

PAUL500 said:

Escort Cosworth with an XJ220 lump fitted instead

A tuned 6R4 engine?

[MC Bodge]

[GT6 Jonsey]

6 wheel Williams and Tyrrells

[Kawasicki]

ddom said:

GT6 Jonsey said:

One of the maddest race cars in recent years has to be Nissans Delta Wing

A very clever car. IIRC there was also an Ariel Atom with 3 wheels used by someone as a test rig for something. I can't find any information of it all but did read about it.

I really didn’t think that Nissan was clever. I thought it was a gimmick.

[ddom]

Judd engines in hill climb car. Bliss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqJxXolico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3gSZfrMDcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DpBXYj_yg

Wibble.

[biggbn]

GT6 Jonsey said:

One of the maddest race cars in recent years has to be Nissans Delta Wing

I loved that car!!

[ddom]

But....if God made noise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ6OZK2Qu60

[GT6 Jonsey]

biggbn said:

GT6 Jonsey said:

One of the maddest race cars in recent years has to be Nissans Delta Wing

I loved that car!!

Same here I thought they were great. Watching its 2012 Le Mans debut live I was gutted when it got punted off the track. The Delta Wings always seemed to attract trouble on track. Due to their size and shape drivers complained it was difficult to judge distance and gaps once along side

[Greg the Fish]

GT6 Jonsey said:

6 wheel Williams and Tyrrells

Big difference is, one raced. One didn't.

So it makes it, the one that didn't, neither a race car or a road car

Pedantic yeah.

[300bhp/ton]

How about some more 'left field' vehicles.

[ddom]

Road a race cars, and you post monster trucks and tractors?

[Benni]

Anything by Boba and the other turbo nutters from Paderborn/Germany.
His Golf Mk2 4WD has done 8.2 / 280 Km/h at Santa Pod, had a plate for testing on Autobahn.
Now is working on 16Vampir´s Drag Golf , with engine straight mount, not bad for a 2000cc 4pot :

Note the run times, 6 runs within an hour, cranking the boost up on every attempt.
Brewed in a shed, without sponsors, but lots of expertise and enthusiasm :

Man, I hope that we meet in the pits and on the quartermile again.
Videos from Boba Motoring are available but I don´t want to anger the mods with too many YT links.

[gazza285]

ddom said:

Road a race cars, and you post monster trucks and tractors?

Ol’ 300bhp, he has been been on here a while, you will get used to his off tangent ramblings after a bit.

[SeldomSeenKid]

I always found Andy Burton’s Cosworth powered Peugeot 306 Rally car interesting

https://drivetribe.com/p/andy-burtons-306-cosworth...

https://youtu.be/mh8w1zPte0w

[Equus]

Greg the Fish said:

I'm going to throw this one into the mix in terms of 'maddest ideas'. It certainly was at the time.

On seeing, it Enzo's words were 'The horses don't push the cart'. Soon changed his tune.

It wasn't particularly original, mind you, and quiet a few earlier examples were considerably madder:

Supercharged V16:


Transverse Straight-8@


Having seen the OP's Shadow with the bodywork off, I think it would be difficult to beat, though. Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'heel and toe'. I'm not particularly safety-conscious, to the degree that I'm quite happy to drive open cars with no rollover protection, but there ain't no way you'd get me behind the wheel of that thing.

[AW111]

ddom said:

Road a race cars, and you post monster trucks and tractors?

Just be thankful it wasn't a Defender.

No, not that one, a real Defender.

[S2r]

Road cars eh, what about a Golf that does 9 second quarters?

[moffspeed]

Then there was the 78 Litre multi turbocharged V18 Mini that we witnessed at the Goodwood FOS a few years back. Unfortunately more show than go.

Freedom to travel. Mingling with crowds. Having a drink with friends. A country pub meal in the evening with the wife. Those were the days...

[waynecyclist]

Ardennes92 said:

With regard to hilarious road registered cars, I always think of Nick Mann and his V8/turbo/nitrous moggie, faster acceleration than an F40 at the time and unlimited record holder at Shelsley for years; think it mustered about 600bhp in the end

Still got the street machine magazine with that car in, always been a favourite of mine.

[Kawasicki]

Another attention grabbing racer...

That I dislike