Caterham Racecars

Introduction

Caterham offer the Super Seven as a fully fledged racing car as well as the more conventional road car. There are several one make championships run by the company each year and below are the prices and specifications of the cars sold that are eligible to compete.

It is absolutely possible to buy a racer and add the parts needed to legally use the car on the road – ie lights, indicators etc… Having done some sums and taken into account that the residual values will possibly be slightly weaker we are not sure it is the best route to take but if you do a lot of trackwork it might be an option worth seriously considering.

Standard Spec

• 1 x 6 Point race harness
• Boot cover
• Battery isolator switch
• Fire extinguisher
• Bare alloy finish panels
• Pre-coloured fibreglass nosecone / front and rear wings

Academy Car

£14950

• Roadsport Race De-Dion chassis
• 1.6 K series 115bhp
• 5 speed gearbox
• 4 x 13” alloys
• Avon road tyres

Super Graduate Car

£16450

• Roadsport Race De-Dion chassis
• 1.6 K series 133bhp (Supersport cams / ECU)
• 5 speed gearbox
• 4 x 13” alloys
• CR500 tyres (as used on the R500)

Roadsport Car

£19000

• Roadsport Race De-Dion chassis
• 1.6 K series 133bhp (Supersport cams / ECU)
• 6 speed gearbox
• Wide track front end
• 4 x 13” alloys
• Avon sport tyres

Superlight Car

£23450

• SLR Race De-Dion chassis
• 1.8 VHPD K series 200bhp (Roller barrel throttles, 4 into 1 exhaust)
• 6 speed gearbox
• Wide track front end
• 4 x 13” split-rim alloys
• Avon slick tyres

Basic options

• Full factory build £2250 (includes SVA)
• Basic paint £ 800
• Metallic paint £1200
• Bonnet stripe £ 150
• Blackpack £ 150 (screen surround, headlamp bowls and exhaust guard)

Notes

Clearly the cars are good value. They do, however, have some limitations in terms of ultimate spec but these are well justified. For example, none of the cars sport carbon panels – this would be a £1200 extra. If you are 95% on track you probably wouldn’t want a £600 carbon nose to smash, either, so this is probably a plus point!

Notice the roller barrel throttles on the SLR – I suspect that you will also get the specially programmed MBE ECU unit rather than the “standard” MEMS system on this car, hence the 200bhp output. It isn’t clear if these cars will have “XPOWER” branded K series but I would have thought they will have, unless they use up the remaining non “X” K series on the racer’s this year.

Bear in mind that you do get only one seat in the spec as standard. You get quite a lot of roll-cagey bits as standard too, which you might not want if you’re using it on the road a lot. It will be highly likely that the deleting of, say, the £400 rollcage from the SLR will NOT result in a £400 saving off the price so be careful when speccing the car!

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