I'd be embarrassed to drive a car with 1980s truck tires like that. Aren't there any better that come in those sizes? And that engine sounds embarrassing too. Talk about redneck. The thing sounds like it's underwater.
I like the idea of a road legal single seater race car, but the thought of being squashified by an SUV doesn't appeal. No wheelarches mean it isn't legal here either. Plus, where would you put your shopping?
Theres one on the back, I don't think you need a front one in that state. I am suprised it's legal to have uncovered wheels there though, that wouldn't be legal here in the UK but a few more mods could make it.
It's a really bad idea to drive a Formula car anywhere near pickups or SUVs though. You hit one, the nose goes under the truck, and your head gets crushed between the truck's bumper and your headrest.
Why would you be such a car? 1. Once it breaks down, you'll need serious amounts of time to even fix it in some sort of a way. 2. Speed, what are you going to do? Accelerate wheneve the road's clear to use all of the brakes to stop back again behind another car? Get huge fines on speed breaking? 3. No safety whatsoever, if the EuroNCAP should rate this thing, it would get -5 stars...
Why would you be such a car? 1. Once it breaks down, you'll need serious amounts of time to even fix it in some sort of a way. 2. Speed, what are you going to do? Accelerate wheneve the road's clear to use all of the brakes to stop back again behind another car? Get huge fines on speed breaking? 3. No safety whatsoever, if the EuroNCAP should rate this thing, it would get -5 stars...
The engine is a Chevy smallblock so I doubt it would cost the earth to fix when it breaks. Especially in murica. Most sane people would just trailer it to trackdays than actually use it on the road anyway.
Would've loved to see him run against the sport bike in the video though.
While the engine did sound somewhat obnoxious, I could live with it due to it's track-day potential.
And to whoever said that the bidding price was low: the bid ended a few weeks ago, with the highest bidder bidding $4x,xxx for it, and the reserve still wasn't met.
meh, not impressed...not impressed by the Atom either, or any other modern open-wheeled car. the fact that they go fast is a "Well, DUH!" proposition.
Tires on that one almost look like Dirt tires. Which would be a fun thing...take it out to the 1/4 bullring for some hotlaps. I'd have a demo run at the Illinois State Fairgrounds 1-mi, myself. I'd need to screen-over and filter a few openings, but that'd be a neat thing to try.
too cramped for a street car, though. and, I might swap the "Infiniti" badge on the front for a Chevy. Or try and put the Titan's mill and all of it's electronics in there.
Ehh.. no thanks. I could just see some one not seeing this car at a red light ramping up the back and then getting pushed into the car in front and it ramping up the front. At this point it being a safer car is pretty pointless. Besides I have a feeling the Atom is lighter and still damn faster.
I'd be embarrassed to drive a car with 1980s truck tires like that. Aren't there any better that come in those sizes? And that engine sounds embarrassing too. Talk about redneck. The thing sounds like it's underwater.
I like the idea of a road legal single seater race car, but the thought of being squashified by an SUV doesn't appeal. No wheelarches mean it isn't legal here either. Plus, where would you put your shopping?
It does have a certain cool factor to it, but you know damn well every single time you drove it a cop would pull you over. It would get very annoying really quickly.
I guess it has to run those tyres since they are probably the only ones available with the height of sidewall that 'formula' or single seater cars require. Single seaters at this level of competition really require high sidewalled tyres since it forms a major part of the cars suspension. Lower profile tyres would make it back shatteringly stiff - even on a glass smooth race track, which really would make it pointless as a road legal vehicle.
An IRL car weighs 700kgs or almost 50% heavier than an Ariel Atom.
That small block Chevy lump will add a good chunk of weight on top of that and would have to be in a high state of tune to even get close to the Ariel's power to weight ratio. Those tyres would also cancel out any downforce benefits that the IRL's wings might provide.
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