Customer Stories - Cars | The Plastic People

Lightweight Race Car

If you’re interested in building your own race car this Customer Story in conjunction with Chris Mohan Racing will show you how this can be an easily achievable project for someone with basic DIY skills.

Polycarbonate and aluminium composite was used to reduce weight in the Chris Mohan race car. With a combination of careful measuring and cutting you can reduce the weight of your race car: weight being the enemy of any race car; reduce weight and you increase the BHP (Brake Horse Power) per tonne of your vehicle. In the following project weight was removed from higher up in the car, hence lowering the car’s centre of gravity.

At Chris Mohan Racing we decided it was time to replace our race car’s glass windows with something a little lighter, so we turned to The Plastic People for some help and advice.

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