944TURBOS

Well my father and I currently race two seperate cars. Him a 993 and me a 944 turbo. He has no aspirations of racing of any sort but loves to do track days. I on the other hand have done some overseas karting and am getting into a racing a whole lot. Looking for something a lot more competetive and something that I can race in different types of races. gt3 in grand am, radical in the new radical series starting, scca csr and I even heard the radicals will be running with some overseas supercup events. We would sell both cars and buy just one. He would do a couple DEs a year, nothing major and I would campaign the car mostly and pay for a lot of the maintnance that is why I was really leaning towards a radical. I hear the maintnance is not too extreme for them whereas a cupcar might be. He is a 911 guy so he prefers the cup car while I am leaning towards a radical, but would still love a cupcar. Anyone have experience with these two cars that could shed some light. I am completely torn.

mooty

if you pm AW, he has both. perhaps he can answer your question.

Eric in Chicago

Mo,
SundayDriver (Mark Dalen) ran a radical for a couple of years. If he does not chime in here shoot him a e mail

Greg Fishman

If you want to be competitive in SCCA there are better (and cheaper) options for sports racers but they aren't two seaters.
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RJay

No experience in either, although I did witness what an SR3 can do on the track at Tremblant a couple of years back. Very impressive! A few thoughts from a non-participant who has considered both these cars. If you're serious about racing and want to win, make sure that you buy a car that is capable of it. No idea if a Radical fits the bill in this regard. Second thought $$$$. There's little doubt that in general a CSR will cost far less to run then a Cup Car. Third thought, the Radical is an aero car, quite a different kettle of fish from a 911, is that the type of racing you want to do? Lastly, I wonder, if you can really pull it off. Racing at the levels you mention seems to be a contact sport these days, how easy-going will you father be, if you get punted and he misses a DE or two?

95m3racer

Get a Pheonix/Maloy, Stohr, ADR, OMS, or one of the bigger names for CSR/DSR. Radical is not really a contender at this time, as they are developing bigger things for bigger series, like lmp2 with the Sr9, and developing Sr8 series, and whatnot.

Sportsracers are so much fun, easy to work on, and you can devleop them in DSR/DSR yourself, rules are great for engineering the cars yourself.

jrotsaert

I asked myself the exact same question so I went and drove a Radical at one of their customer days at Brands Hatch (I now live in the UK for a while) and though the Radical was awesone (I drove the 4 as the 3 is for enduro series and the 1 only has 1 seat and I like having 2) it was not what I was looking for. The maintenance costs are extremely high. Over £20,000 for a season here, excluding going to races, and really require a mechanic to set-up properly as you can't do it all alone. In the end, I bought a 1991 cup car converted to a 1994 RSR look and part, except the engine which is a modified street 3.6 pushed to 3.8 with 325hp (max allowed in my series for the weight in UK Porsche Open). I think that you should try the radical before you decide
JM

PedroNole

I saw an SR3 eat up everything except for a Porsche factory spec race car at Homestead this weekend. It was pretty impressive!