![]() Six are heading to Western Australia – a greedy regional grab attributed to the Danny Ric factor and the mining industry’s high wages.Ĭrushed that you’ve missed out, you could become an unwilling player in a pathetic game of envy. Only 12 RS Trophy-Rs were earmarked for Australia, and priced at $74,990 plus on-road costs. If the prospect of owning a Trophy-R gets your heart rate up, I have heartbreaking news. It’s a limited-edition (500 only) production model unapologetically intended to do its most compelling work on a racing circuit, or perhaps in a targa tarmac rally or hill climb.Įlsewhere on Planet Speed, the new Megane RS Trophy-R has already been doing some shouting and sliding, setting a new FWD record at the Nürburgring of 7m 40.10s, and again at Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit with a lap of 2m 48.338s. Which brings us to the 2020 Renault Megane RS Trophy-R – the latest in a line of cult variants from the Renault Sport crew, and the highest-performance production car Renault has ever put on the market. Road or track, weight saving and aero packages are now carefully executed programs based on more than presumption. Chapman’s special genius didn’t include prioritising keeping his drivers in one piece.Īlong with the discipline of aerodynamics, race car and road car engineering have moved on amazingly from those raw, swashbuckling days, and the process is now more exact than the guesswork of the Chapman era of the 1960s and ’70s. Just ask Jim Clark.Īsk Jochen Rindt, perhaps. It won him world championships, but the philosophy was not always terrific for some of his drivers, who enjoyed the competitiveness while being less thrilled about the prospect of the machinery failing. The pioneering master of creating lightweight race cars was Colin Chapman, who painstakingly worked power-to-weight ratios to uncork winning pace for his Lotus formula cars. Renault boasts it is the best performing Renault production model ever.
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