Tertre Rouge Racing Car Background

Performance

 

The Tertre Rouge Racing race car is designed to match or exceed the performance of a late 1980s high-end Group C car and give the same driving experience. Just like its predecessors, the race car has no driver aids, has around 800bhp/ton which is coupled with over 1000kgs of downforce and huge tyres. If you didn’t race at Le Mans in the 1980s, this is a close as you can get. The ride height can be dropped for racing, and its road wheels and tyres have the same diameter as the Group C tyres available from Michelin and Avon, making them easy to be swapped out.

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The Engine

 

Based on the 1989 Le Mans and 1989 & 1990 World Sportscar Championship-winning Sauber Mercedes power plant, the Tertre Rouge Racing car has the same closed deck block and modifications, but uses newer technology and equipment.

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The Chassis

 

Designed to meet and exceed the MSA and FIA requirements, the chassis has an integrated survival cell with integrated crash structures. It has been designed to give great access during pit stops and have easily interchangeable sections from accident damage. This is no fragile flexible aluminium tub.

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Construction

 

Manufactured the same way an aircraft or spacecraft goes through its AIT phase (we know because we've done that) the Tertre Rouge Racing car has been designed and built with the highest standards of design and assembly including full daily tool control, aerospace and race car material & construction methodology. How many other cars have glue logs of everything that has been bonded? Ours does.

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Design

 

The Tertre Rouge Racing car has been designed to look like the late 1980s Group C car. Hidden in the cleaner lines, you'll find all the NACA ducts for brakes and oil coolers that you would expect, whilst keeping the same prodigious downforce these cars are famous for. The car also supports butterfly doors for optimised driver ingress and egress. The body is optimised to produce maximum downforce for modern 200mph VMAX race tracks while retaining a 250mph (400KPH) maximum top speed.