what if I was to say to you that one of the most extreme cars in the world a car claimed to be faster than a Formula 1 car came not from Italy or Germany or the UK but from New Zealand and no that's not an AI backdrop this is the radin F0 prepare to have your mind blown now just in case you think you're looking look at vaporware here's a quick bit of background on roadin it's got previous having bought the t125 project from Lotus and re-engineered it as the FZ at its premises on south
island it not only has its own Racetrack and fully equipped pit garages but a state-of-the-art production facility filled with 3D printers a Foundry and five AIS Milling machines the investment here to build the FZ is colossal it also recently bought the super successful Carlin Motorsport outfit that's competed in everything from F2 to Indie lights the man behind all of this is entrepreneur David Dicker so David where did the idea for this car come from I always wanted to build a car quicker than an F1 and obviously as time has gone on that has become you
know more and more possible like back in the 70s and 80s it wasn't possible in the same way because the cars were unrestricted and that was the quickest car anyone could make but it's different now so that was the idea so literally build your your own F1 car if you like just to prove I guess that you didn't have to spend the enormous amounts of money they spend to go fast obviously this cars cost money we spent a fair bit of money on it but nothing like what the F1 go SP yeah so where did
you start what what was your first P Port were you doing the chassis the arrow the engine where did you start well I started with the basic concept for the car obviously you're going to use fenders because you're not going to have the tires out in the air if you can possibly avoid it and you're going to use a canopy for the same reason and then it just sort of draws from there um I mean I can't draw and any of that pencil and paper stuff so I'm a computer guy from you know way back
so it's all been done on CAD but you start on the cad and you just you know you just draw lines and you pull around and you just sort of do stuff and yeah yeah so right can we go through it a bit and just talk talk me round it so where do we start with because the the the proportion of some of the the sizes you've got for like the front wing and everything they're huge they're absolutely huge so where how much downforce are you developing I think the front Wing can make 18800 kg
the front Wing can make 18800 Kil we do all our testing at 300K but I'm I think that was the sort of number that we could get out of it it's a lot wow it's enormous yeah so if you've got 1,800 kilos on the front axle how much have you got on the rear well this car generates probably a bit over 4,000 kg of downforce at 186 mph 300 K we're going to do a well I've pretty much finished the design for aark 2 car that's learned from this car we're going to run a lower
downforce there we're going to probably run about 3,000 kg right cuz the 4,000 just gets a bit High you issues with the tires and all the other stuff and have you done you've done everything in house so the arrow has been done in house I've done all the arrow I we will use outside Consulting guys to just sort of correlate it and make sure that no huge idiotic mistakes were made but yeah basically yeah yeah and are those guys F1 Engineers who they're guys that have worked in F1 so you can if we come back
down the side these look suspiciously like formula one star wheels as well yeah well I made these wheels for us and they're basically the same as the F1 wheel it's a forge Magnesium Wheel and all the details have been done I think these wheels are 8 kg on the front and 8 or n at the back and yeah this is basically as good a wheel as you can get and these fenders I understand aren't are they not finished yet you got a bit work to do with these well it didn't quite they they're obviously sitting
too high and didn't quite come out right I mean it's fine on a Proto and that but on the on the version 2 car we bring these down pretty much as close as we can possibly get them just to reduce the frontal area so you got full carbon suspension it's all in board obviously and everything's just sort of tided up very neatly so you want clean air I suppose coming as far down the car as you can yeah well the big Advantage is that you can send most of it down there obviously on the F1
cars they just got an enormous block there on a sports car you've got an enormous block there and that's just going to kill you yeah you know we put the radiators in the fenders so the radiator are in on an angle and you know we just draw through here and we just fire out the back so that's exactly what I was wondering I was trying to work out where you were doing your cooling because you've got there's going to be a lot of heat being generated and so the radiators are all out in the flanks
yeah and then the cooling pipes are running from yeah and underneath right but you've got this is this is fascinating to me you've got the five exhaust pipes you've got a V10 in there which we'll talk about in a second but the five exhaust pipes run out into the flank yeah well the turbos are in the in there again we got to get it out of the wind uh the the airam yeah so you've got so turbo on either side so twin turbo engine and it's well tell me about the engine in fact tell you
what before you do that can we take the engine cover off and have a look cuz I think we can have a look under there yeah sure go ahead just look at how tight the packaging is under the carbon cover Dicker is rightly proud of that especially having the intercoolers mounted directly on top of the trumpets reducing the intake lengths the engine is a custombuilt 4 L V10 done entirely to Rodin's design they had originally considered using a Jud V10 but eventually the plan is to build road cars and that engine with its port injection
system would never pass emissions regulations the first two engines were built by a British specialist but in its production facility here Rodin has all the tools necessary to create its own engines from the ground up they even have a f foundary for Onsite castings they are one of the few companies in the world that can do everything from casting engine blocks to test driving cars on the same site you can't build cars without a test track the test tracks really got to come first yeah it's just you you I mean you need to pound around
to get them I completely agree but I think 95% of the world's car companies haven't got the facilities under way that you have Fano is probably the closest comparison you've got here yeah well I've been to I've been to the factory in Italy you know on numerous occasions and you know you see the way they do it and obviously Ferrari is very successful and yeah but you've got more power than a Ferrari in here haven't you this engine made um 1,3 horsepower at 11 PSI at about 96 yeah so and this isn't and that's not
production ready yet that's just that was really just a runup and you're looking at what do you think well we're run the engine to 10,000 RPM yeah and we'll run 1 and a half atmosphere so that's um what 2122 PSI yeah so that should get us to 15 or 1600 horsepower which in in what should still be a reliable package yeah and that that'll be the aim yeah and we're talking what are we talking for weight this car is way too heavy and it's embarrassing to even mention the numbers I'm not going to mention but
what are you aiming for our aim is to build a car at the same as the current F1 the f1's are 798 with the driver our Target is 698 ready to go except for the driver so that would just get you a bit under there W so that's 698 so it's carbon chassis carbon body panels and everything then you've got your own engine and gearbox not not your gearbox I'm guessing well this gearbox is built for us by ricado completely to our specification this one's an 8-speed forward no reverse they're going to we're going to
do a seven speeeed with reverse yeah going forward it's got a printed titanium case and it's got internals sort of like in leemon style internals to deal with the engine tourque but a completely custom designed by Ricard and you're doing your own 3D printing on site as well aren't you yeah it's a hell of an investment yeah it really is it's amazing and you just don't expect it you used to these things coming from big companies and stuff but you put an enormous amount of investment in down here yeah I know but I mean look
I'm 71 years old I've always wanted to do it I managed to make the money to be able to do it so I'm going to do it yeah I mean I I'm not going to be able to take it with me I don't have any kids so there it goes amazing so yeah let's come a bit further back so that I'm guessing is that's the the exhaust valve from the turbos well that's the entire exhaust oh it's the entire exhaust originally we were going to take it out here but we had a few issues and
we ended up uh doing it out there we probably will move back to this position the hope is that we can make it out of titanium um obviously you got an issue with Titanium because of the heat but with it being in the air stream I think it'll probably cope yeah and titanium's much lighter than Inc canel so it's a weight saver so look just looking down the side of the car obviously you're you're venting air out behind the front wheels there so you're trying to get rid of the air there but you've and you've
got intakes here but there's a slot down right down the bottom there is this part of is this all part of the arrow package yeah the the feeds air into the back of the floor and just improves the floor flow and on the cfd we got a massive increase in the operation of the floor with it so yeah and so down Force you were saying this is 4,000 kilos or whatever what sort of lap time what sort of performance do you think that's going to be giving you well on the version 2 car we've run
through simulation software that we use at the race team in the UK y and with 1500 horsepower and the same weight as a current F1 car it shows the car 7 Seconds a lap quicker around Albert Park than an ib2 really 24 m w car I mean 1500 horsepower gives you a gives you a lot of straight line shunt doesn't it yeah I mean it makes a massive I mean look it's unfair on the F1 guys because obviously they're all running around with a handy behind their back but that's just the reality of the situation
and we just want to show that you know other things are possible obviously single seater can we have a look inside the cockpit yeah sure how how does it open yeah that's a good question I think it's around the back here is it on that pull oh look at that steering wheels titanium and the column and and we have air conditioning as well because that was going to be my next question it's going to get hot in there under that canopy is if you shut the canopy and the sun is out you can get up
to 50° here in 5 or 10 minutes honestly you couldn't drive the car without without the air and the other beauty is of course once you've got that it's actually going to be comfortable yeah and that's important is it right if I ever sit in yeah no go ahead right I'm going to have to take my you're not going to find that seat very comfortable it's hard carbon but anyway right okay let's give it a go haven't got my haven't got my small race race boots on today what have we got going on you got
a DRS button on here so you're going to you've got an active rear wing obviously yeah we can have it I'm not sure if we'll end up actually having it in the production car because yeah it doesn't make that much difference and and you're going to have weight and complication so that one's a 50/50 fine okay and you've got a lot you've got get a lot of mechanical adjustments you can do here to brake bias different diff settings as well we have abs yep and we also have automatic upshifts and you can set which gear
you start the automatic upshifts in okay cuz you don't need it when you get to fourth or fifth but but we need to make the car drivable and things like abs and automatic upshifts help you a lot because you know the engine speed comes up so quickly that it's very difficult to without those sort of things yeah and what are you going to be running so you got three screens in front of them front of me here what are you going to be running on those just all the technical information and stuff we probably put
a bit of a camera view on the two on the each one on the side so you can look out the back yeah just in case anyone's there yeah excellent right let me just jump back out amazing right I want to come around the back because this you've got a lot of surface area here isn't it and I think when you see the car from the side it looks quite heavy so quite like a Batmobile really isn't it is you need the fs to to balance the cockpit visually if you just have a cockpit in
the middle and it's flat it just it's ugly it doesn't look right that's the main reason for the Curves in the fenders is is really is the Italians to say it's just just Optical yeah yeah but obviously the fin does have some advantages aerodynamically yeah cuz if anything it's always like there's a there's a riff on it it's like old like an old land speeed record car it's got cuz these fins the pods are as big as the central pod in itself yeah they much lighter though a lot lighter yeah and then you've you've got
this enormous twin plane rear wing and a rear diffuser which finishes obviously quite a bit earlier at the moment is that is is that design going to change on the version 2K we've got a lot more out of the floor than we have on this car we've got a massive some massive gains there we're moving the lower control arms up in line with the drive shaft so they won't be in the airst Stream anymore they'll be above and that that's that's a massive gain as well and just looking down there are those 3D printed wheel
hubs you've got as well yeah yeah and the suspension arms the suspension arm ends as well the ends are yeah 3D printed titanium and wow titanium printed uprights so I mean titanium's are fundamentally better metal than aluminium so we want to use it where wherever we can really and what's the plan with the car are you hoping to go into production with it yeah we'd like to you know we' sort of I figure we try and build 30 cars and sell 27 of them you're going to need a prototype I'm going to at least want
to keep one and there'll probably be something that get screwed up so but yeah we would like to I mean look we see this car as a competitor to the B7 um yeah and so you know we're going to we're going to go after that fantastic and you you're there ahead of them at the moment yeah well you know obviously they got a massive amount of resource and all the other stuff so I don't know how that's going to pan out but you know it's good to have a Target and we just give it a
shot great fantastic right do you think we can start it up and have a listen yeah sure brilliant [Music] [Music] the FZ is easily one of the wildest prototypes we've ever encountered and a question remains about whether wealthy enthusiasts share dicker's passion and desire for a car that like the MC spearing is so head scrambling fast that it can rival F1 lap times but let's worry about that when the time comes right now it looks like Red Bull and Adrien Nei might not have everything their own way
