Economist, bond trader, Senior Fellow of Cambridge
University and high-performance car enthusiast Warren Mosler
has a long history of creating advanced and sometimes
unconventional road cars that are designed also to be raced.
Through cars such as the Raptor and the Consulier (banned
from a number of race series in the USA because it was too
fast for the competition!) Warren’s collaboration with
former Chevrolet Corvette engineer Rod Trenne conceived the
Mosler MT900. Designed virtually as a mid-engined,
composite-chassised Corvette with the same mighty
powerplant, one of Mosler’s first actions was to put the
MT900 through the rigorous US certification process,
including crash tests, which made it fully road-legal in all
50 States – “Our mission is to offer the top performance
sportscar manufactured to be legal for US roads. My cars are
also designed to be capable of the lowest lap times on
tracks like Daytona, Sebring, Road America, Watkin's Glen,
Laguna Seca, and the like”.
Proving the point, the MT900 was soon racing and the first
major international win came in 2002, at the famed Daytona
24 Hours.
Shortly after this, Martin Short of Rollcentre Racing in the
UK imported the first MT900R into Europe and promptly won
the class in the Zolder Belcar Race, the first race win for
the marque outside of the USA, followed by a fine 2nd
overall in the inaugural Bathurst 24 Hours. Impressed by
Martin Short’s successes, Warren Mosler placed
responsibility for further development of the race cars with
Rollcentre Racing, being rewarded by the team winning two
races (including the Spa 1000Kms), and the team championship
in the 2003 British GT Series.
With Mosler Europe formed to further develop and market the
MT900R as well as produce and sell the MT900S road car,
Mosler history has continued to be made by customer teams
throughout Europe. |
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