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Power is easy, weight is expensive. Cars built to be light, and the kilograms taken out of them.
Lightweight Sports Cars is a club for people who take weight out rather than power in. Corner weights and a weighbridge ticket instead of a brochure figure, where the mass actually sits in a given platform, seats, glass, sound deadening, wiring and wheels ranked by kilograms per unit of money, the point at which removal starts costing usability, and what a light car does to braking distance, tyre choice and the way it holds a line.
For owners of light sports cars as built, and for anyone lightening what they already have. Purpose-built roadsters, small mid-engined cars, stripped saloons and kit-built machines all belong here.
What happens here: before and after weights with the ticket photographed, parts lists ranked by kilograms saved per unit of cost, seat, glass and wiring threads, brake and tyre choices that suit a light car rather than a heavy one, and drives where the road matters more than the straight.
No members yet. Applications are open.
Free on every membership. You apply with the car in your garage and a reviewer decides, usually within 48 hours.
Checked by hand. Documents are only seen by the reviewers, through links that expire in 15 minutes.
No approved members yet. The first application could be yours.