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detail
30th September 2005, 20:34
Night street racing, though legal. :D Just look at the photos. Formula Rus' transported their cars from the base at Moscow to a city racing track nearby. They decided not to load all these cars into trucks, but just asked the road police to help. A patrol escorted the column of formulas.

http://www.formularus.ru/img/995.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/997.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/999.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1001.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1003.jpg
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1007.jpg

Once I've posted at RSC another mad action. They planned an exhibitional race in the end of October 2003. That time the weather can be between +20 and 0, and that year they got the bad weather: 0°, snow and water on track. First their test driver tried a car with snow tyres and said "okay", then others made a race. :D
no_one
1st October 2005, 01:28
http://www.formularus.ru/img/1003.jpg

Haha, imagine driving home from work on the motorway and being overtaken by a bunch of formula cars:D Did the police close the roads and did the cars have to obey speed limits?
Blackout
1st October 2005, 07:28
Lovely Russian police, everything seems possible to them :D
detail
1st October 2005, 09:59
Haha, imagine driving home from work on the motorway and being overtaken by a bunch of formula cars:D Did the police close the roads and did the cars have to obey speed limits?
As they write, a police car was escorting the column and told everyone with a loud-speaker to free a row for them.
Vain
1st October 2005, 10:04
Better get yourselves a radical. Looks just as nice on your way home, but you don't need a police-car to escort you. :)
"Oh damn, only 5 minutes until I have to be at work. I'll take the radical!" *WHAM!*

Vain
Dragger
3rd October 2005, 09:18
poor underchassis lol
J.B.
3rd October 2005, 17:00
Better get yourselves a radical. Looks just as nice on your way home, but you don't need a police-car to escort you. :)
"Oh damn, only 5 minutes until I have to be at work. I'll take the radical!" *WHAM!*

Vain

Do you know what the TÜV situation is?
Bob Smith
3rd October 2005, 17:28
That's great. Imagine all the riced hatchbacks trying to race them, lol (or do you not get those in Russia?) :D
Vain
3rd October 2005, 17:58
The Radical is perfectly legal to drive on public roads in germany. Though the status of the second version, with doubled horsepowers, is unknown to me.

Vain
Forbin
3rd October 2005, 18:29
"In Soviet Russia, road forks you."

Gotta love Family Guy. :)
Vendetta
3rd October 2005, 22:50
Haha thats awesome :)
ajp71
26th October 2005, 21:20
The Radical is perfectly legal to drive on public roads in germany. Though the status of the second version, with doubled horsepowers, is unknown to me.

Vain

All the Radicals yet built have been available in road legal trim, although they are pure circuit cars.
Shotglass
27th October 2005, 02:43
All the Radicals yet built have been available in road legal trim, although they are pure circuit cars.

theres a huge difference between whats road legal in england and whats road legal in germany
detail
27th October 2005, 04:17
That's great. Imagine all the riced hatchbacks trying to race them, lol (or do you not get those in Russia?) :D
Of course, they are. :) But I'm in 3000 km to the east from Moscow, and here there are more right-side-wheel Japanese sedans or coupes.
Don Merino
27th October 2005, 10:18
theres a huge difference between whats road legal in england and whats road legal in germany

As long as they have all the necessary lights (dipped beam, full beam, 2 taillights, 3 brake lights, 4 indicators) and a speedo, as well as road tires, there's no reason why it shouldn't be possible. Since it is a race car, the chassis is probably more than adequate for the car's power, so there shouldn't be any problems either.

The only thing is that since it is a race car and not really something which is made in mass production, Radical probably hasn't "registered" it with the TÜV, so you'll have to get a ton of certificates from graduate engineers, either somehow directly from Radical, or you've got to have the car tested somewhere else.

Of course, those certificates are horridly expensive, not to mention what the TÜV will charge for checking if the car and its components are in exactly the state specified in the certificates and then taking all the paperwork and making your very own, one-of-a-kind car registration out of it.
Shotglass
27th October 2005, 17:14
those test will probably even require you to buy more than one frame as the ones that have been tested will be pretty much useless afterwards ... not worth the effort and money