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Westfield iRacer takes to the track
A little over a month after Birmingham City University released its latest details of a home-kit version of its all-electric Westfield racer, an eight-minute video of the car making a very quiet run around a track has surfaced. It's all cockpit POV, though, sadly, and a bug or something hits the camera a little after half-way through.
Westfield readying lightweight electric iRacer [w/video]
Westfield iRacer – Click above for high-res image gallery
Westfield readying lightweight electric iRacer [w/video]
Westfield iRacer - Click above for high-res image gallery
Westfield to create hybrid sports cars
In the early 1970s, after Lotus stopped building their iconic Seven, they sold the tooling to a small British company called Caterham who continues to build variants of the Seven to this day. In addition, lots of kit car builders sprung up making copies of the Seven, many of which have fallen by the wayside. One of the best known and more successful was Westfield. This week at a conference on Hybrid vehicles at the University of Warwick, near Birmingham, England they will be announcing a partner