| Slonya |
2 years ago |
| The fastest car in the world!
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| Heyhuub |
2 years ago |
| uhmm, is this a street legal version?
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| Anonymous |
2 years ago |
| Not as quick as caparo t1 but quick enuff to make your pants brown
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| Kevin |
2 years ago |
| This is such a killer car. I have loved it forever. If the 363hp SR8 could lap
Nurburgring in 6:55 what could a 455hp one do? Time warp!
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| Anonymous |
2 years ago |
| cars like this should only be able to compete at track days. its totally useless
anywhere else and its stupid that it legal on roads..no offence to anybody
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| Slonya |
2 years ago |
| Yes, it's street legal.
Radical SR8LM is much faster, than Caparo T1. Just compare track times of
different cars on Bedford(EVO Mag) and Top Gear track. Radical SR3 Turbo faster
than Caparo, but it isn't on Nurburgring. Caparo founders sad that Caparo's time
on Nurburgring less than 7 minute, I think it's closer to truth. But Radical
SR8LM much faster on Nurburgring too, Radical's time is about 6:30.
Caparo has more power per weight, but it's very pure car - i think it's the
reason. And Radical develops similar models more than 10 years.
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| Anonymous |
2 years ago |
| how how how is it faster than a caparo it has more power less weight lower 0-60
and a higher top speed just how...
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| Slonya |
2 years ago |
| To anonymous:
1. I think Radical's 0-60 is about 2.2-2.3, it's faster, but it isn't
important.
2. Top speed isn't so important, because max speed in most tracks less than
290.
3. The important thing is that Radical's aerodynamics is much better. So radical
has more downforce (it's one of the most important thing for timetrack), more
stable, more reliabity. And Radical's handless is much better.
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| Anonymous |
2 years ago |
| caparo Will eat this.
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| Anonymous |
2 years ago |
| CAPARO is SLOWER at Bedford Than SR3 TURBO, this is much much more Faster.
CAPARO is fast on the paper more than in the track
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| Slonya |
2 years ago |
| To anonymous: no, no, no
Sr3 turbo was on track tyres (-5 sec) and on old bedford (-3 sec), so Caparo is
5 sec faster than sr3 turbo
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| Anonymous |
1 year ago |
| If the sr8lm is so much faster, why are the normal sr8's beating them in radical
european masters???
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| steve_1979 |
1 year ago |
| I wouldn't like to say which one will be the fastest as I think they will be
very close. Caparo has more money and ex-F1 engineers but Radical has
effectively been designing and evolving this car for 10 years. Mind you,
Chaterham and Ariel are also developing 1000bhp per ton road legal race cars
which might come close too.
Radical SR8 LM, Caparo T1, Ariel Atom 500 V8 and the Chaterham RST-V8 Levante.
Now that would make a great group test...
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| Slonya |
1 year ago |
To anonymous: I think cause it's harder to drive maybe and it's new.
To steve_1979: Caparo has less money.
And Caterham and Atom have no chance because of aerodynamics.
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| steve_1979 |
1 year ago |
| I read in EVO magazine that Caparo is a huge multi-national company with over
5000 staff and a £1,000,000,000 turnover. They own AP Racing, several alloy
casting and composite companies, make engine blocks and brakes for Aston Martin,
engines for NASCAR, brakes for Land Rover, racing yachts and even structures for
buildings. I do hope that the SR8 is faster than the T1 though, apart from
flying the flag for the small British car company it also looks really cool.
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| Slonya |
1 year ago |
To steve_1979: Thanx for info. I really didn't know it.
But firstly radical works with another compamys.
Secondly it's business suicide to spend much money for caparo.
420000$*75=30.50000$ - maybe about 30-50% is profit - so about 10-15 million
dollars to design. Maybe they want to be more famous,so they made Caparo T1, so
maybe 50-70 million. Radical has spended more for their cars.
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| Slonya |
1 year ago |
| And as i understand Radical spend much more money than they can make so it's not
so small company as it seems to be
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| Slonya |
1 year ago |
| No, i was wrong, it seems to be that radical don't works with another companys,
but all the same...
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| steve_1979 |
1 year ago |
I think your right about Caparo building the T1 just to boost there profile
rather than to make a profit.
Radical also has a sister company PowerTEC that builds their engines and other
machanics. Thay have been doing well selling their products to other people in
the racing industry.
I also think your right about the Caterham and Atom being slower because of
inferior aerodynamics but I bet they wont be far behind.
Does anyone know if the SR8LM and T1 has ever been tested on the same track so
that there lap times could to compared?
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| bob |
1 year ago |
this is such a crap car!!!
the caparo t1 and the
ultima gtr gt2 and the gtr 720 are much much better
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| FastestLaps |
1 year ago |
 Why do you think it's crap? :D I think it serves it's purpose very well.
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| bob |
1 year ago |
| Anyone have a price?
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| Anonymous |
1 year ago |
| prolly around £73,000 maybe?
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| steve_1979 |
8 months ago |
The Ultima has always been one of my favourite cars since I first read about it
many many years ago and the GTR 720 is an incredibly fast car - just look at all
those world records it has! I bet it would beat the SR8LM and T1 in a straight
line but would be a fair bit slower in the corners because of all that extra
weight.
Ultima GTR 720 - 1050kg
Radical SR8LM - 650kg
Caparo T1 - 575kg
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