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- Finland
Something I really like in car games is just getting to drive older race cars to the limit, from weird ones that never really got their chance to incredibly iconic ones I just always find it really cool, so here's some old race cars I'd like to see.
Abarth X1/9 Prototipo '74
Take a light Fiat, juice it up with parts from Lancia's and Abarth's racing parts catalogue and top it off with a high reving i4 making 210hp at 8000rpm and you've got a winner right? This thing was tested to be easier to manage and faster than the Stratos and was all set to become the next huge rally success with a road going version to homologate it for Group 4 before it was unceremoniously canned due to internal politics at Fiat favouring a rally car based on the Fiat 131 instead.
210 hp
2l NA i4
720kg
MR
Marcos Mantis XP '68
Mantis XP almost just looks too outrageous to exist, a late 60s GT Vision racer. And armed with a Brapham-Repco F1 V8 and fully independent suspension tuned by John Cooper it was far more than just a flashy concept car. Sadly a leaky cabin, electrical faults and the costs involved with re-engineering doomed the Mantis XP's racing career to mere 13 wet laps of Spa. It seems like it really was just too outrageous to exist.
310hp
3.0l NA V8
650kg
MR
Lotus Type 62 '69
An evolution of the Type 46 which itself was an evolution of the Europa, the Type 62 ended up sharing nothing but a scant few body panels with its road going version. In Lotus tradition it was a fantastically light car with beautiful handling and stunning looks yet it was throughly unmatched against the massive beasts it was competing against such as the 917.
240hp
2l NA I4
741kg
MR
Iso Grifo A3/C '64
Designed by Giotto Bizzarini the man behind Ferrari 250 GTO. His independent follow up featured a Corvette V8 mounted halfway into the cabin and a body made from alluminum alloy that had to be riveted in place. And that was enough for it to win top of it's class at LeMans in 1964 and 1965.
405hp
5.3l NA V8
1220kg
FMR
Maserati Tipo V4 '29
Don't let the name fool you the V4 stands for V as in engine configuration and 4 as in the amount of liters. The amount of cylinders is 16. And unlike most early 16 cylinder engines this one wasn't created for a smooth quiet ride, nor was it created for fuel economy which granted by 1929 was barely invented. The thirsty 16cylinder drank a special mix of benzine, gasoline and ether and it drank on average 52 liters of it at a 100km stretch giving it a ridiculous mpg of 4.52. But what this thing was above all else was properly fast, clocking 124.2mph at Monza, a circuit record which stood until 1954.
305hp
4l Twin-Supercharged V16
1050kg
FR
Abarth X1/9 Prototipo '74
Take a light Fiat, juice it up with parts from Lancia's and Abarth's racing parts catalogue and top it off with a high reving i4 making 210hp at 8000rpm and you've got a winner right? This thing was tested to be easier to manage and faster than the Stratos and was all set to become the next huge rally success with a road going version to homologate it for Group 4 before it was unceremoniously canned due to internal politics at Fiat favouring a rally car based on the Fiat 131 instead.
210 hp
2l NA i4
720kg
MR
Marcos Mantis XP '68
Mantis XP almost just looks too outrageous to exist, a late 60s GT Vision racer. And armed with a Brapham-Repco F1 V8 and fully independent suspension tuned by John Cooper it was far more than just a flashy concept car. Sadly a leaky cabin, electrical faults and the costs involved with re-engineering doomed the Mantis XP's racing career to mere 13 wet laps of Spa. It seems like it really was just too outrageous to exist.
310hp
3.0l NA V8
650kg
MR
Lotus Type 62 '69
An evolution of the Type 46 which itself was an evolution of the Europa, the Type 62 ended up sharing nothing but a scant few body panels with its road going version. In Lotus tradition it was a fantastically light car with beautiful handling and stunning looks yet it was throughly unmatched against the massive beasts it was competing against such as the 917.
240hp
2l NA I4
741kg
MR
Iso Grifo A3/C '64
Designed by Giotto Bizzarini the man behind Ferrari 250 GTO. His independent follow up featured a Corvette V8 mounted halfway into the cabin and a body made from alluminum alloy that had to be riveted in place. And that was enough for it to win top of it's class at LeMans in 1964 and 1965.
405hp
5.3l NA V8
1220kg
FMR
Maserati Tipo V4 '29
Don't let the name fool you the V4 stands for V as in engine configuration and 4 as in the amount of liters. The amount of cylinders is 16. And unlike most early 16 cylinder engines this one wasn't created for a smooth quiet ride, nor was it created for fuel economy which granted by 1929 was barely invented. The thirsty 16cylinder drank a special mix of benzine, gasoline and ether and it drank on average 52 liters of it at a 100km stretch giving it a ridiculous mpg of 4.52. But what this thing was above all else was properly fast, clocking 124.2mph at Monza, a circuit record which stood until 1954.
305hp
4l Twin-Supercharged V16
1050kg
FR
