Aurora to Sell ADR1000 as a DSR

Aurora Motorsports is ordering an ADR1000 this week to be delivered to their shop in North Carolina, where they will update it to SCCA specifications. They have named the SCCA compliant car the Sport 1. The car is planned to be available for customer delivery shortly thereafter.

Coupled with Aurora Motorsports' earlier announcement to import the ADR Sports 2, this now allows them to offer cars for both the CSR and DSR SCCA classes.

Aurora Motorsports will strive to have the first customer car ready by June. Potential customers will be glad to know that the Sport 1 chassis and bodies will be built in the United States. The first ADR1000 chassis will be shipping to the US in 2 weeks. Aurora will then update the chassis to SCCA specs (making it a Sport 1), make new chassis jigs, new body plug and molds for the new chassis, and engine mounts.

The previously announced Sport 2 CSR cars, with new chassis and bodies, will be ready by late March. They should arrive in the US by mid-April. Aurora Motorsports has already procured a 1507cc Hayabusa engine for the first car, and will receive a 2004 1300cc engine this week.
The Sport 2 is now FIA crash tested and certified and each car will come with FIA certification papers have FIA tags on the roll cage.

The ADR1000 and Sports 2 sports racers are designed and manufactured by ADR Engineering UK. The ADR cars were featured in the December 2004/January 2005 edition (Issue 57) of Race Tech magazine.

For details, contact Rod Whedbee at 704-798-6959
Rod Whedbee
Aurora Motorsports
210 Hill St, #19
Salisbury, NC 28144
704.798.6959

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Engine Rules Adjusted for CSR

A Technical Service Bulletin (Acrobat file) will appear in the April edition of SCCA's FasTrack with the changes effective March 1, 2005.

CSR engine specification listed in the Sports Racer Category of the 2005 GCR have been changed, primarily to allow fuel injection on almost all choices, and to make competitive adjustments to minimum weights.

CSR engine choices remain vast with twenty types of alternatives listed.

See this table showing the changes.

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Open Source SR Initiative Begins

An ambitious task has started. The goal is to develop a flexible racing platform that can be used across multiple racing classes, in which individual component assemblies could be combined into a complete car, interchanged, or incorporated into ones own application with a minimum of fuss.

The concept is patterned after successful open source software projects such as the Linux operating system for personal computers.

The idea is to design, source, and provide instructional material for constructing (or buying) a proper sports racer along with all of the associated sub-assemblies.

The consortium working on this will be a single source providing people, who are inclined but lack the skills or experience, a full-on roadmap for how to construct a car from start to finish, hold their hands and at every step of the way have explanations for why and how things were done the way they were. If those explanations and rationale are provided, upper level individuals still have the freedom to diverge from the roadmap as they see fit to accomplish their own goals.

Rennie Clayton, SCCA's 2003 Formula Atlantic National Champion, has spearheaded this effort an gathered individuals interested in the project.

To follow along with the group's discussions, or to join the group, visit the Open Source Sports Racer Initiative's Google group.

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Phoenix Partners with George Dean

Phoenix Race Cars, Inc. will offer its Maloy DSR-1 race car with a Suzuki GSX-R1000 engine factory, installed and ready to race. Several different standard engine packages will be available in both wet-sump and dry-sump versions.

All engines for the Phoenix, AZ based company are being built by George Dean Racing Engines in Seattle, WA. Each engine will be completely disassembled, inspected, blueprinted and reassembled as specified in the package selected by the buyer. Each engine will come with a dyno sheet and a short video clip of the dyno run as well.

The first engine has been delivered and installed in a new Maloy DSR-1 and additional in-car testing will begin shortly. Final pricing for the turn-key Maloy DSR-1 cars will range from $48,000 with a fairly stock wet-sump engine to over $55,000 for a highly modified version with a custom dry sump system.

“This is a great opportunity for me to achieve my goal of winning the SCCA runoffs with one of my engines. The combination of our Suzuki GSX-R1000 engines and the Maloy DSR-1 will be tough to beat on the track. I’m really looking forward to this relationship!” says George Dean.

Phoenix Race Cars, Inc. was recently formed to take over the manufacturing and distribution of the Maloy DSR/CSR race car from Maloy Racing in Albuquerque, NM. Contact Matt Conrad, General Manager at 623.581.3222.

George Dean Racing Engines provides engines to many successful DSR competitors and is located in Mountlake Terrace, WA. George Dean can be reached at 425.778.4431.

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