With the World Time Attack Challenge just around the corner, many teams are pushing to get as much testing as they can done. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to document the second test day for the Mercury Motor Sport team. Mercury had been working around the clock to finish this epic R35 GT-R, and it was finally completed and ready for track testing after recieving its final carbon fibre body pieces.
The built GT-R has absolutely phenomenal speed around the track, consisting of an AMS big-bore built engine, AMS Alpha 10 turbo kit, custom spec head & more!
Let’s not forget the aero either, which, from my understanding, has been developed by an ex-formula engineer. That means it not only looks amazing, but functions incredibly well; just look at the rear diffuser!
The car was running really consitantly over the whole day, resulting in a 55.2 second lap around the Clubman circuit!
The crew at Downshift would like to wish Mark and the Mercury team good luck at the WTAC! we’ll be there taking photos and cheering you on. Big thanks to Casey for letting me test out his 400L to get these epic shots; be sure to check out his website.