Here Comes the Track Day God
Track day toys are just beginning to catch on here in the States, but over in Europe the sport has grown beyond anything anyone could have ever imagined.
Ariel Atoms, BAC Monos, KTM XBows, and Ford Superlights, these are just some of the different names in the track day business. Nevertheless, none of these can really compete with the machines the Radical Company put out.
Radical has been around the longest out of any of these outfits and now they’ve just gone and changed the game once again with this, the SR8 RSX.
It weighs about the same as my shoe, has a racing V8, and pumps out 440 hp that goes literally all the way up to 11. Seriously, it revs to 10,500. However, whereas Radicals of old, including the nutty LMP looking version are street legal, this one isn’t.
This car you will actually have to trailer to any event you go to, and even if you get one you need a special quieter exhaust since the one that comes standard on the car probably isn’t legal at any track you go to unless you are at an actual racing series.
However, here’s where the numbers outshine the insanity or rather hilarity of it not being road or track day legal. The car only weighs around 1895 lbs wet without a driver. The down force it can achieve at full tilt is 1984 lbs!
Why this deserves an exclamation mark is because this car belongs to a few rarified cars that have the “potential” to actually drive upside down. Holy Hell.
Obviously there are a multitude of factors limiting the ability to test this scenario, chief among them finding someone crazy enough to go flat out upside down, but according to the math it’s possible.
Radical says this piece of engineering art will only set you back a cool $209,000! That is until you remember you need a trailer for this beast, then figure another $15 grand!
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