THE REVOLUTION GAINING PACE

I thought contemporary motorsport had long given up on supercharging engines to increase performance. I figured this to be anachronistic engineering from the pre-war era of ‘Blower’ Bentleys and such. But the latest development in Phil Abbott’s futuristic revolution in affordable sports-prototype racing harks back to this bygone age.

It’s been a long time since I first drove the Revolution, during its earliest pre-pandemic development. The car was clearly well-built and decently quick. The lower-cost design approach using CFD programming that until recently was only really applied in Formula 1 and for Le Mans was also very interesting. But the lack of power steering wore me out after only a handful of laps around the Algarve Circuit near Portimao – and it did feel as though the car was a bit heavy for an engine output still shy of 400bhp.

I had a second go – in the wet – at Donington Park in February 2020, just before the