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Origins
The SR3 of 2002 perfected what Radical's founders had begun with bike-engined prototypes: a genuine sports-racing car — slicks, wings, sequential shift, motorcycle-derived engines revving past 10,000 — made accessible enough for ordinary licence-holders to own, run and race. Suzuki-based units tuned in-house powered a car whose downforce delivered cornering forces road cars could not approach, while running costs stayed within club-racing reason. It became the best-selling machine of its kind on earth, with over a thousand built, one-make series on several continents, and lap records at circuits everywhere — including, famously, production-car benchmarks at the Nürburgring set by its SR8 sibling. The SR3 defined an industry: the racing car as consumer product, delivered ready to astonish.
Radical SR3 Sports Racer of Richard Fricker · GTHO · CC BY-SA 3.0
