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Legends Car Cuppen

Legends Car CuppenThe Legend Car Cuppen concept was started in 1992 in United States. The cars are made small and made to look like the cars of the 1930s and 1940s, the modified cars are proudly owned by 5500 race enthusiast all over the world.

United States, France, Denmark, Benelux, England, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Morocco and nearly 19 other countries have a yearly championship, incentives, including days of test-driving other Legend Cars.

The Legend Car Cuppen offers an atypical motor sport approach in Denmark. The cars are small in size with large wheels; the body of the car remains the old original. The car specifications are as follows: The engine is a Yamaha VMax engine that is tuned to pump out 150bhp at 10800RPM. It uses a 5-speed sequential transmission. The acceleration performed is 0 to 100km/hr in 3.7 seconds. The engine comes with an optional liquid cooling kit. The car chassis is tubular for reinforces strength with MAXXIS LCC (Legend Car Cuppen) Edition Tires. The brakes used are either Brembo disc or Ferodo LCC Edition pads. The weight of the Legend car varies from 480 to 520Kg, depending on the model of the car used. According to race regulations the weight of the car with the driver should not be more that 620kg, the dimension of the Legend Car as per regulations should be (LxBxH): 3.20m x 1.52m 1.20m. The body should be made from polyester, where you have 10 models from the Chevy, Ford and Dodge to choose from.

The Legend Car Cuppen is one of the few formula motor sports and offers the maximum driving time in a weekend with about three hours of time on the track per staff. Starting this year, the format for weekend practice runs has evolved to having both the types of race circuits i.e. the endurance run and also the two-run sprint, which both takes place in the same weekend.

The runs and laps are as follow: Practice runs for both drivers of the team are 30 to 60 laps. The test laps for qualification of both drivers is 20 laps each. The three course runs are: Sprint Race 1A (20 laps), Sprint Race 1B (20 laps) and Endurance Race (40 laps).

 

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