Awesome!!
A mate had a full day testing a proper Clio cup car run by Pyro at Blyton last week , I was sat in the passenger seat for most of it , it was nothing like I thought it would be , the grip was just amazing , it wasn’t bonkers fast in a straight line but the way you can bang the gears up and down and throw it into corners was unreal , God I would love a track weapon like that .
Yup they always look a hoot. I’ve been on track with them before and have always been impressed with the pace that they carry…a great little package 
Switched our Leon for a 200 with Cup chassis earlier in the year. On a B road its pretty impressive but TBH its ridiculously stiff for general day to day round town driving. If anything more so than the Exige. Still not planning in chopping it in any time soon.
My GF had a Clio cup road car but it was nothing like the proper cup race car , the engine is the same and tag sealed but it has a sequential gearbox that takes so much abuse , on a 10 lap stint at Blyton it lapped everything twice , even the bike engine caterham things.
Looks good fun , did you get to drive it m8?
No mate , just in the passenger seat for most of the day , I may have a go next time out at Donnington , my mate did really well for his first drive , I would love to race one but sadly it costs �130k+ a season to run one .
Awesome cars. I drove a clio cup car at Bedford once and was just addicted to that gearbox
no proof no glory? lol
Yeah that gearbox 
the engine braking by banging the gears down was just awesome , �14k a gearbox they tell me.
It’s a sadev box is it not? I drove one at Bedford too years and years ago.
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Yeah that gearbox the engine braking by banging the gears down was just awesome , �14k a gearbox they tell me. [/quote]
So … About the same price of a C64 gearbox thesedays,by the time you add oil coolers ,pump,lsd and gears that will actually work etc.etc…
They also said the gearbox probably wouldn’t last a season with just race weekends as testing is banned 
Expensive series for such a little car .
I really have the track bug now .
Yeah I think they are Sadev jobs.
I umm’d and arr’d looking into Clio racing. John said he had a chat with one of the guys from a top team and the budget if you actually want to win, is about �1 million a year!!!
[quote=SeanB]Yeah I think they are Sadev jobs.
I umm’d and arr’d looking into Clio racing. John said he had a chat with one of the guys from a top team and the budget if you actually want to win, is about �1 million a year!!! [/quote]
Bonkers money really when there’s no testing / cars are insured / the engine is sealed and the cars are all the same and run the same tyres .
In reality, I bet there are loads of differences between the cars. The odd tweak here, the odd tweak there and you can bet some of those engines have been opened and then re-sealed.
A lot of that goes on in tag sealed karting , not so much tampering with the seals but top teams have dyno tested 100s of engines and carbs and match them , they keep a few engines that came out on top , you can’t buy these engines and only rent them if they decide your good enough to be on the teams books and you can pay the huge prices the top teams charge , we are only talking 6-7hp but on a kart that’s 30ish hp it makes a big difference , money still wins .
Easy peasy. No testing allowed at a venue and in your race car. Nothing to say that you cannot go and do a track day, in a car that is really, really similar to the one you are going to race the following week 
The �1 million was for 2 cars, with Chelsea football club all over everything, up and coming talent scouting apparently. Or some such tax dodge