What's with all these not-road-legal-but-not-race-legal-either hypercars being made?

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Published 05/10/2017 at 00:12

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The FIA needs to make an F1 for sports cars. They could call it... GT1... or something...


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Kinja'd!!! "CRider" (crider)
05/10/2017 at 00:26, STARS: 1

Don’t underestimate the folly of rich people.

Kinja'd!!! "AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed)
05/10/2017 at 00:32, STARS: 0

Supposedly the Vulcan is $2million. That could buy a lot of GT3 racing.

Kinja'd!!! "HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
05/10/2017 at 00:34, STARS: 3

Im still for the RGSGTTC

Rich Guy Super GT Touring Championship

Kinja'd!!! "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
05/10/2017 at 00:49, STARS: 0

That’s already a thing... sort of.

Ultracar Sports Club .

Kinja'd!!! "AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed)
05/10/2017 at 00:51, STARS: 0

Well I’ll be damned, that’s actually pretty close!

Kinja'd!!! "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
05/10/2017 at 01:00, STARS: 0

SRO created Ultracar Sports Club for that, but really, it’s pansy-ass shit.

Makes and SRO should man up and expand Ultracar until it becomes a league. Owners get paired with a Gold-rated GT driver. 15 venues all over the world. Team up with EVO Magazine.

Kinja'd!!! "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
05/10/2017 at 01:00, STARS: 0

SRO created Ultracar Sports Club for that, but really, it’s pansy-ass shit.

Makes and SRO should man up and expand Ultracar until it becomes a league Owners get paired with a Gold-rated GT driver. 15 venues all over the world. Team up with EVO Magazine.

Kinja'd!!! "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
05/10/2017 at 01:03, STARS: 0

Not close enough. See my separate comment.

Kinja'd!!! "briannutter1" (briannutter1)
05/10/2017 at 01:22, STARS: 0

That would mean you would actually have to compete.

Kinja'd!!! "PS9" (PS9)
05/10/2017 at 01:28, STARS: 2

Well when you think you have the proles crushed underfoot, you see a few of them almost getting a leg up driving around in used, old, last tuesday’s washedup, has been, not-so-super-anymore sloppy second hand cars. It’s almost as if they think they can escape poverty and join you on mount olympus. That just won’t do. Mortals are not meant to play along with the gods.

The luxury brands are doing what they can (building unreliable pieces of exquisite shit that fall apart the moment the warranty is up, unnecessarily limiting production to inflate demand forever, being dicks to the pre-owned poors crowd so’s they know to stay in their lane), but that only goes so far. What’s a member of the American Express Black Card club to do? I know! Exclusive track-only supercars.

Production numbers so low, the price will remain far out of reach of the horrible tavarish’s of the world, but not too low to leave room for you and the others in the pantheon on the welcome list. Track only, so you’ll never see another one on the street. Race illegal, of course. What, you want me to smash my pride and joy up against other cars like it’s some shitty Miata? No, thank you. Exclusive, rare, and just for me, as it will remain forever no matter how long from now someone buys one.

Kinja'd!!! "AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed)
05/10/2017 at 11:28, STARS: 0

Or we could go back to the days where rich people were happy to own the team and pay fast drivers to drive for them. One driver per car, distance-based races between 150-200 miles. None of this “2-hour endurance” bullshit.

Kinja'd!!! "AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed)
05/10/2017 at 11:32, STARS: 0

I guess that explains it pretty well. Still, if I had a net worth big enough to buy one of these, I’d rather actually be a race car driver instead of just pretend to. These cars, as awesome as they are technically, just scream “poser.”