Monday 16th July 2018

BAC Mono Festival of Speed run: Time For Coffee?

Anthony Reid takes Goodwood honours as BAC beats Aston Martin, Ford and Porsche up the hill

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If you wanted to go fast at Goodwood this year, electric propulsion was the way to do it. Both the VW ID R and Nio EP9 trounced the field in the Festival of Speed shootout, ahead of F3 cars, IMSA prototypes, Indycars and more. The future is most certainly here; who knows, perhaps an autonomous car isn't far from topping the time sheets?

That said, in the roadgoing supercar shootout, internal combustion still dominated. One in particular, in fact, as the 2.5-litre BAC Mono topped the time sheets with a 49.13-second time. Not only was that enough to be crowned fastest supercar at the Festival of Speed, it's also the quickest ever supercar up the hill - beating Jann Mardenborough's 49.27 run in 2014, driving a GT-R NISMO.

The Mono faced some potent competition for bragging rights, the shootout also featuring a 911 GT2 RS (50.38 seconds), Ford GT (51.63) and Aston Martin Vulcan (51.66).

Former BTCC driver Anthony Reid was driving the Mono, describing the car as "so accessible and agile that it lapped up the challenge all week." Co-founder Ian Briggs added: "It feels amazing to be the fastest supercar ever to take on the event and hammers home just how amazing a machine Mono is."

BAC's video of the run is fairly rudimentary, but just plonking a camera on the front splitter does at least do a good job of conveying the speed. Like many track focused lightweights, it's the corner speed that's most staggering, of course aided in this instance by more than 300hp. What must it be like on a bigger circuit? Hopefully that's a question we can answer very soon. For now, enjoy the vid!

 

[hondansx]

Its not a supercar.

Plus, it's basically a single seater with some bodywork - not a cheap one either. I therefore expect it to be quick up the hill as it is, let's face it, a one trick pony.