Revolution Track Car Boasts Sub-Ton Curb Weight, Racing Kit From Radical Co-Founder

In a car that weighs about as much as a cow, a naturally-aspirated V6 making 350 horsepower is more than enough to scare you witless.
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Radical Sportscars co-founder Phil Abbott announced in September that he would start a new company to make a machine more in line with his vision of the perfect track car, and on Tuesday, Revolution Race Cars revealed its product to the public.

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Revolution Race Cars

Abbott’s new company touts the Revolution as “an all-new track and race car conceived, designed, developed and built by racers for racers,” and one that will bring Le Mans Prototype technology down to a more affordable level. By LMP tech, they presumably mean carbon fiber, which allows the Revolution to weigh a paltry 750 kilograms (1,653 pounds), and by affordable, they mean under £100,000 GBP ($131,000 USD).

Power comes from a naturally-aspirated, 3.7-liter Ford Duratec V6 making 350 horsepower, which it dispenses to the rear axle via a sequential six-speed manual transmission. This engine can endure 100 hours or 10,000 kilometers (6,314 miles) of racing before requiring a rebuild, which should be on the cheap side given the widespread availability of parts for said V6.

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Revolution Race Cars

Purchasers of the Revolution can elect to enter their cars in a racing series called the Sports Prototype Cup, which will slot the Revolution into a one-make class of its own if at least eight cars enter. Its race calendar will feature famed British racetracks Silverstone, Donington, and Brands Hatch, and will conclude in Portugal as a support event for the European Le Mans Series’ Four Hours of Portimao. A continental series is in the works too and will be based in France.

Revolution Race Cars will debut the Revolution at Silverstone Circuit sometime later this month.