The Autoshite Racing Car

[St.Jude]

Inspired a bit by this video about a fairly wealthy American owning and driving his own F1 car:

The thought occurred to me what would the perfect Autoshite race car would be?

Personally, for me, it'd be the Tyrrell 019 - which I think is a better looking car than the Jordan 191.

I think followed up by the FSO Polonez rally car.

Got to be careful with the Polonez Group B stuff though - this specific one that I'm on about is the one where they essentially took the arse end of a Lancia Stratos and threw it under the Polonez shell. Total death trap to drive, it'd be a lot of fun.

[horriblemercedes]

Locost

 

Bits of old Ford put together with lumps of scrap metal and stuff from B&Q by the owner at home. Designed by a man called Ron

 

[treehugger]

Don't those fizzos like rolling over? 

[St.Jude]

24 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Locost

 

Bits of old Ford put together with lumps of scrap metal and stuff from B&Q by the owner at home. Designed by a man called Ron

 

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[quicksilver]

Surely the Autoshite racing car has to be something completely unsuitable for the sport in which it is being used. I therefore suggest a Series Land Rover for any discipline that doesn't involve off-roading.

[AnnoyingPentium]

A Rover 75 Tourer, but rallying.

[Pieman]

[grogee]

34 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

OMG that is motorsport perfection.

Would crash into a wall, 14/10

[Sham]

[yes oui si]

It'd be driven by Taki Inoue... 

[crad]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 minutes ago, grogee said:

OMG that is motorsport perfection.

Would crash into a wall, 14/10

Do you want more? 

[Kiltox]

Stability in cornering guaranteed*

[St.Jude]

2 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Stability in cornering guaranteed*

Except for when you're a 10th of a second down on the pole time at Monaco...

 

[M'coli]

I'll just leave this here...

[Asimo]

Nothing too modern for me.

[CreepingJesus]

850 wagon, but with a mismatched tailgate and winter tyres cos we got them for pennies off eBay. And painted beige with brown and russet accents, which any AS racer would have to be. 

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, Sham said:

Nice to see that car still going - I remember its original owner Dan Rooke winning titles in that when I first commentated on Rallycross.

[Pieman]

59 minutes ago, yes oui si said:

It'd be driven by Jean-Denis Deletraz... 

FTFY.  (Allegedly he was why the 107% qualifying rule was brought in.)

[Stanky]

I've wittered about these before, but to me they're a pretty autoshite way of going really fucking fast round a circuit

"Powered by a two-stroke 250 cc engine producing 75 kW (100 hp) for an overall weight including the driver of 205 kilograms (452 lb), superkarts have a power/weight ratio (including the driver) of approximately 365 W/kg (490 hp/tonne)(0.22 hp/lb), or closer to 730 W/kg (980 hp/tonne)(0.44 hp/lb) without the driver, which is about the equivalent of a midget car, or an open-wheel A1 Grand Prix car. Superkarts can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (60 mph) in less than 3 seconds with a top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph).^[8] Their low weight and good downforce make for excellent cornering^[9] and braking abilities.^[10] A superkart is capable of braking from 160 km/h (100 mph) to standstill in around 2 seconds, and taking corners at nearly 3 g"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superkart

[Pieman]

Commentated on those a few times too - they are absolutely MENTAL and even make motorcycle racing look sensible.

I'm going to enjoy this thread, rubbish racing cars are something of a speciality of mine.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Saw this at Cadwell 10 years ago in the HSCC pre-65 Touring Car race

[yes oui si]

21 minutes ago, Pieman said:

FTFY.  (Allegedly he was why the 107% qualifying rule was brought in.)

Pales in comparison to Inoue. 

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, crad said:

 

From 7:30 onwards some Brummie bloke starts talking bollocks, just to warn you.

[Alan_Green]

[AnnoyingPentium]

49 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

850 wagon, but with a mismatched tailgate and winter tyres cos we got them for pennies off eBay. And painted beige with brown and russet accents, which any AS racer would have to be. 

@reb - you said you wanted a track 850...

[Pieman]

57 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

850 wagon, but with a mismatched tailgate and winter tyres cos we got them for pennies off eBay. And painted beige with brown and russet accents, which any AS racer would have to be. 

I think just two of those were built for the 1994 BTCC season, one is now in Volvo's museum in Sweden and I think the other one is in a private collection.  You may notice that the Montego estate I posted is in a tribute livery to this car - the car that was a meme before the word "meme" was invented!

I may be completely wrong here, but I believe I read that it was only partly a publicity stunt and the car was partly designed as a test bed for FWD ahead of the 850 saloon being introduced the following year, the team (TWR) having been used to working with RWD cars.

[Dyslexic Viking]

[reb]

9 minutes ago, Pieman said:

I think just two of those were built for the 1994 BTCC season, one is now in Volvo's museum in Sweden and I think the 
I may be completely wrong here, but I believe I read that it was only partly a publicity stunt and the car was partly designed as a test bed for FWD ahead of the 850 saloon being introduced the following year, the team (TWR) having been used to working with RWD cars.

The story I heard was that when they turned up at the factory to pick up the shells they didn't have any saloon shells ready, so they just took some estates instead.