FORMULA ONE CARS FOR THE ROAD

01 Yamaha OX99-11 Like most ‘F1 cars for the road’, the OX99 came about as a sort of road-going billboard for a company’s F1 efforts. Yamaha was supplying F1 engines back in 1989, so by 1992 it wanted to make a street car to celebrate that fact. 02 BAC Mono The most single-minded, gloriously selfish sports car made today is the sublime Briggs Automotive Company Mono. Slap on a wing and some oil giant sponsorship and it looks ready for the Monaco grid. Bet it would keep up with this year’s Williams... 03 Ferrari F50 The 4.7 V12 in the back of the F50 shared its basic block with the 3.5 V12 Ferrari used in the 641 F1 car, five years before the F50’s birth. And you worked those revs with a six-speed open-gate manual. Just like an F1 car from ye olden days. 04 McLaren F1 While we’re on the Nineties hypercars, the F1 needs a mention. Tenuous? Well, you sit in the middle, it’s built entirely from carbon fibre, and it used tech banned from F1 racing, like a ground-effect fan and active aerodynamics. 05 Tramontana R Spain’s foremost purveyor of central-seat V12-insanity-on-wheels says the Tramontana is supposed to be a cross between an F1 car and a jet fighter. It has the wings, the outboard wheels, and the canopy, for sure. Sadly, it’s unarmed and can only fly short distances. Once. 06 Caparo T1 The T1 had everything right on paper. Input from the guys behind the McLaren F1, performance to outstrip the Veyron and looks that blended insect, racecar and spaceship. It was good for 0–62mph in 2.5 and 200mph, plus 3g of cornering force. And it was road-legal. 07 Mercedes-AMG One It’s delayed, but AMG promises it’s still coming: a hypercar featuring the hybrid-turbo V6 engine from its 2015 Championship-winning F1 car. Add in electric drive for the front axle, in-board suspension and active aero and it’s clear AMG is taking the idea of a road-going F1 car seriously. 08 Aston Martin Valkyrie The Valkyrie’s been mostly designed by Red Bull aero genius Adrian Newey, for goodness’ sake. Its 11,100rpm V12 comes courtesy of Cosworth. The interior looks like it’s out of a steampunk F1 car from the future. Aston Martin says it’ll set comparable lap times to a Red Bull Racing car. 09 Lanzante Tag Heuer Porsche 930 In the Eighties, Porsche supplied McLaren with some 1.5 turbo V6 engines good for almost 1,000bhp in qualifying trim. Requiring a test mule, McLaren bunged one in the back of a 911 Turbo. Lanzante has said it’ll build 11 more examples, using bona fide period F1 engines.