The addictive ride in the "Legend Car"
10/11/2014
You need a skin-tight neoprene suit for diving. Ski racers wear aerodynamically optimized "mass suits" to be really fast. There are clothes to suit many different sports.
Now I've finally been able to get to know the "wetsuit" for the race track. Sr is called the "Legend Car" and is a car the size of the original Mini (length 3.2 m, width 1.5 m), but with 150 hp and 500 kg fighting weight.
You sit on the rear axle and the windshield is as big as a Brookland pre-war wind and water deflector. The drive comes from the Yamaha motorcycle and the sequential 5-speed gearbox also comes from there. First gear at the front, the remaining four are pulled. Gears are shifted completely without a clutch. After switching on the ignition and pressing the starter button, the engine begins to scream and you feel like you're in a top-class racing car. If only the visibility were better.
Once started, the engine revs happily in all gears almost to the limit. The sports car feels like a go-kart and is addictive.
Medicine describes "addiction" as an unavoidable desire for a certain state of experience. It was precisely this syndrome that I became completely addicted to after the first lap. The craving gets stronger from round to round. Even a numb "butt-meter" feels every little reaction of the racing machine.
Once up to temperature, the oversized tires build up a lot of "grip". The drift is very easy to control, just like in a kart. Only the brakes on the test car were not quite up to today's standard, but the newer models are decelerated with disc brakes. As the clutch is only used as a starting aid, the brake pedal is double to satisfy left-hand brakes.
Getting in and out of the car is only possible thanks to the removable steering wheel and, due to the small door and low roof, you have to think a bit before you can thread your way in or out of the car. The F1 for midgets only has a rev counter and a gear indicator light. That's all you need to know.
What exactly is a Legend Car? It is a low-cost racing car. The competitions are contested with identical vehicles whose shape is based on American NASCAR cars from the 1930s and 1940s - you can choose from
Chevrolet Coupé (1934), Ford Sedan (1934), Ford Coupé (1934), Chevrolet Sedan (1937), Dodge Coupé (1937), Ford Sedan (1937), Dodge Sedan (1937).
The first real Legend car was presented in April 1992. The cars are manufactured by "US Legend Cars International" in Harrisburg, North Carolina.
There are European Legend Car Championships in Scotland, Finland, Sweden and France. More racing fun for less money - there are already contenders for victory for four-figure sums - is almost impossible ...
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