The 380bhp Revolution A-One is a immensely capable track day machine; we sampled it around Portugal's Portimao circuit -
’s flat-six, or a power plant born in Maranello, a turbocharged four could be seen as an anticlimax. So Revolution swallowed the 160kg weight penalty of a 3.7-litre naturally aspirated Ford Cyclone V6, and set about making it track-ready. With all internals balanced, and porting to the cylinder head, the V6 makes a howling 380bhp and 330lb ft, with as much as 300lb ft from 3000rpm.
It says much about the A-One’s ability in other areas that straight-line pace is perhaps the least memorable aspect of it. Which is crazy, given its belting 486bhp-per-dry-ton power-to-weight ratio. So hunkered down are you, both physically and via the invisible effects of downforce, that the straights are mainly a brief moment to consider braking and cornering speeds for what’s about to happen.
With its LMP2-standard electronics there are many data acquisition and analysis options available, and I could really use them for the braking areas in the slower corners. I can’t decide if I’m trying too hard or not hard enough.
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