MOSLER GT300 Hope
springs eternal
Taking on the Japanese in their own back yard was never going to be easy. But that’s what Mosler Europe did. And it spawned a new ‘SuperGT’ product
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his is not the place to debate the problems endured by Mosler in the USA and in Europe in attempting
to get the MT900 accepted in mainstream GT racing, but one of the outcomes of that battle was an even greater determination to succeed. And from this sprang the idea of building a new, cheaper, quicker version of the car. Mosler Europe CEO, Martin Short, a driver and team owner
BY SIMON MCBEATH
of considerable repute, set about putting together a business plan to get the car racing. ‘With our Mosler GT3s being ‘equalised’ to the back of the grids in Europe, we needed to look elsewhere,’ says Short. ‘There are certain championships that work on a power-to-weight ratio system, rather than the restrictive GT2 / GT3 format. This allows car designers more freedom. With
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that in mind, we decided to work on advancing the aerodynamics of the car, and improving chassis stiffness. ‘From some basic CFD aero
development work we knew the areas where we could gain most with this car. The floor offered the biggest potential for creating downforce, but it needed to be driven harder by a different diffuser at the rear. And to get the new diffuser shape we wanted, we needed a new
rear chassis design. Whilst we were doing that, we decided that we may as well design a whole new spaceframe chassis – a backwards step perhaps in some ways compared to the GT3 car, but it allowed easy aero tweaks, along with reduced costs from the road car’s carbon composite honeycomb tub employed on the GT3 cars.’ Coincidentally, at around the same time (2009), Singaporean businessman and racing driver,
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