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The superstars competing at the 2013 Race Of Champions will have a new beast to tame after the Ariel Atom Cup joined the line-up of cars for the event, to be held at Bangkok's Rajamangala Stadium on December 14-15.
The Ariel Atom is a road-legal high-performance sports car made by a company from Somerset, Great Britain. Unusually for a road car, the Atom is exoskeletal - meaning its chassis is visible from the outside - and it has no roof or windows. Its suspension is derived from single-seater racing cars and its performance is similarly racy: indeed the Ariel Atom 500 held the lap record round the BBC Top Gear test track until earlier this year.
Four brand new Ariel Atom Cup cars have now been specially prepared with custom-built rear wings to take on the Race Of Champions parallel track in Bangkok in the hands of a host of driving greats.
The Atoms join a line-up that includes a range of powerful cars such as the Audi R8 LMS, VW Scirocco Cup and the Toyota GT86. ROC 2013 will also feature the Euro NASCAR plus traditional Race Of Champions favourites like the KTM X-Bow and the ROC car.
Most of this year's cars are travelling to Thailand from Europe by sea, leaving this week. The four Atoms plus all their support equipment and spares were loaded onto two 40-foot shipping containers in the British town of Leamington last week.
Also on the ship are the four KTM X-Bows, which had previously been transported over from Hamburg, plus the legendary Audi S1 rally car and the three stunt cars used by Terry Grant. The ROC cars, Euro NASCARs and Michelin tires are setting sail on a different ship, the ‘APL Paris', from Rotterdam.
The superstars competing at the 2013 Race Of Champions will have a new beast to tame after the Ariel Atom Cup joined the line-up of cars for the event, to be held at Bangkok's Rajamangala Stadium on December 14-15.
The Ariel Atom is a road-legal high-performance sports car made by a company from Somerset, Great Britain. Unusually for a road car, the Atom is exoskeletal - meaning its chassis is visible from the outside - and it has no roof or windows. Its suspension is derived from single-seater racing cars and its performance is similarly racy: indeed the Ariel Atom 500 held the lap record round the BBC Top Gear test track until earlier this year.
Four brand new Ariel Atom Cup cars have now been specially prepared with custom-built rear wings to take on the Race Of Champions parallel track in Bangkok in the hands of a host of driving greats.
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The Atoms join a line-up that includes a range of powerful cars such as the Audi R8 LMS, VW Scirocco Cup and the Toyota GT86. ROC 2013 will also feature the Euro NASCAR plus traditional Race Of Champions favourites like the KTM X-Bow and the ROC car.
Most of this year's cars are travelling to Thailand from Europe by sea, leaving this week. The four Atoms plus all their support equipment and spares were loaded onto two 40-foot shipping containers in the British town of Leamington last week.
Also on the ship are the four KTM X-Bows, which had previously been transported over from Hamburg, plus the legendary Audi S1 rally car and the three stunt cars used by Terry Grant. The ROC cars, Euro NASCARs and Michelin tires are setting sail on a different ship, the ‘APL Paris', from Rotterdam.