Hyper Racer X1
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3.0s0–100 km/h 2.9s0–60 mph
235km/h top speed 145mph top speed
500bhp/ton
144kilowatts 195horsepower
410kg dry weight 905lbs dry weight

The Vision

Build the world's lightest, full ground-effects race car.
The X1 is a high-performance, wash-n-race vehicle with a simple 'one-man race team' approach to maintenance.
It is fast, corners like a housefly, and features built-in safety never before seen at the affordable end of racing. At half the price of our competitors, there is no better option available for professional or amateur drivers on a budget.

"The X1 is the purest, lightest, most driver focused racing car you will ever drive." Dean Crooke - CEO

ADC racing at The Bend
Racing

One grid. One Make. One question:
Who's quickest?

Identical X1s, premier circuits, and a title decided by the driver alone. Racing now in the Australian Drivers' Championship — with championships establishing in the USA and UK.
Stepping up from karting. The X1 keeps everything karting taught you and adds slicks, wings, and full ground effects.
Experienced drivers. You’ve waited long enough. Put a real race car, in your garage.
The X1

Quick to learn.
A lifetime to Master.

Full ground effects, 500 bhp per ton, and safety engineered in from the first sketch. Racing, track days, hill climbs, club events — or just the best hour of your month. Built to be owned and run by one person: wash it, check it, drive it. No team. No trailer full of spares. No compromise.

X1 race car
Carbon body available

Form follows function

Hyper Racer X1 — form Hyper Racer X1 — function
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Simplify... Then add lightness.

Australian Designer/Engineers Jon and Dean Crooke designed and built the X1, the world's lightest full ground effects race car.

The all composite or carbon fibre skin forms a radical body, utterly honed for performance. The design harnesses the atmosphere around, over and through the X1, resulting in a striking aerodynamic exterior with mind warping downforce.

Chassis hugging upper surfaces, taper around the driver-focused cockpit and engine, and end at a point in front of the rear wing. Air travels through front wing ducts, is rammed into a pair of three meter mega ground-effect tunnels and explodes out the back into two diffusers from hell. The ground effect tunnels are designed to progressively move the centre of pressure rearward as the speed increases. This controls front end grip at slow speeds while providing the driver with mega rear end grip and stability at high speed.

Hundreds of design hours were spent packaging the major components - driver, engine, wheels - into the smallest possible chassis package. If a component or part was not essential, it was removed. Component packaging was kept low and central to minimise roll, pitch, polar and rotational moments of inertia. Every component was selected or manufactured to add 'lightness'.

Featured film

Meet your next race car.

Hyper Racer CEO Dean Crooke's complete 17 minute walkthrough of the X1 — every system, every detail, top to bottom.

Hyper Racer X1 Grand Tour
17 min
Feature · The Grand Tour
Hyper Racer X1 — The Grand Tour
Hyper Racer CEO Dean Crooke walks you through the X1 from head to toe — every design feature, how each system is serviced, and exactly why someone would choose an X1 over any other race car on the market. It's the most complete look at the car there is.
Dean Crooke · Hyper Racer
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