In these lines we are going to talk about 9 of the best road racing cars. Authentic beasts of street approved circuits.
There are cars that have been created to devour the curves of a circuit but that are available to roll on the road. With this dual personality we find cars as well known as the Porsche 911 GT3 RS or the Lamborghini Huracán STO. These are some of the best today, although they are not the only ones. Well in these lines we are going to talk about 9 of the best road racing cars.
The McLaren F1 is and will be one of the best sports cars that man has ever created. The brand won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans with a competition version of the same model, and to celebrate the five units that finished the test created the McLaren F1 LM. A car more radical and powerful than the F1 that could roll on the road. The story was totally different with the BMW M1 Procar, because this one did not get to compete. And despite the fact that they were returned to their normal state, one of them reassembled the Procar specifications and was homologated for driving on the road.
With the KTM X-Bow forget about luggage or even windshield. Focus on driving this machine built for the track on the road. Nothing to do with him Bowler EXR-S, a Range Rover Sport with more than 550 hp created by Bowler Nemesis for competitions like the Dakar. At least this off-roader could go unnoticed, nothing to do with the Radical SR3 of which we still wonder how it can be homologated. What a device!
The one you know well is the Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR, a car created for the FIA GT Championship of which the brand was required to build 25 road examples. It contained the powerful 6.9-liter, 612-hp V12 AMG. Less known is the Prague R1R, the company’s first road car since 1947. They made their race car a little more comfortable, a beast of the track weighing in at just 670 kg.
It can also carry a license plate, although it seems otherwise, the SCG 003S, a car based on the one that raced 24 hours of the Nürburgring. What is a Mazda MX-5? No, it has not escaped us. And it is that the Mazda MX-5 is the most economical option, one of them, to run in motorsport. It has been used in racing series all over the world, a car with great dynamics.
This article was published in Top Gear by Enrique León.