Car Name: | Mosler GT600 |
Category: | GT3 |
Constructor: | Mosler Automotive |
Predecessor: | Mosler GT300 |
Successor: | Mosler MT900R |
Team: | Blue Jumeirah Team |
Drivers: | Rafael Unzurrunzaga |
Chassis: | Carbon fibre tub on space frame |
Engine Name: | Chevrolet LS7 |
Capacity: | 70111NaN1 |
Configuration: | 16 valve, OHV V8, |
Turbo/Na: | naturally aspirated, |
Gearbox Name: | Hewland LWS |
Gears: | 6-speed |
Type: | sequential |
Races: | 14 (9 starts) |
Wins: | 0 |
Cons Champ: | 0 |
Drivers Champ: | 0 |
Teams Champ: | 0 |
Poles: | 0 |
Fastest Laps: | 0 |
The Mosler GT600 (also known as the Mosler Super GT600) was a sports racing car built by Mosler Automotive in 2011 for the GT3 category. A more powerful version of Mosler's GT300 car, it shares its chassis with that car, but uses a 6000NaN0 7-litre Chevrolet LS7 V8 engine. One car was built, as the car was built for Rafael Unzurrunzaga.
In 2011, Rafael Unzurrunzaga approached Mosler Automotive, asking for a more powerful version of the firm's GT300.[1] Like the GT300, the GT600 used a space frame chassis, and shared the same carbon fibre bodywork.[2] However, the 3000NaN0 engine fitted in the GT300 was replaced with a 7-litre Chevrolet LS7 V8, capable of producing 6000NaN0.[2] A MoTeC ECU, dashboard and PDM system was fitted, and the GT600 became the first car to use the 6-speed sequential Hewland LWS gearbox.[1] The car was delivered to Unzurrunzaga in July 2011,[2] at Donington Park, where the car was also tested.[3]
The GT600's racing debut came at the Estoril round of the Spanish GT Championship on 17 July 2011, where Unzurrunzaga ran the car under the Blue Jumeirah Team banner.[4] Competing in the GTS class, he finished 14th overall, and sixth in class.[5] Unzurrunzaga then switched to the Red Bull Ring round of the International GT Open, but was unable to start either race.[6] [7] Two months later, he returned to the GT Open, competing in the Catalunya round; having missed the start of the first race,[8] he could do no better than 24th overall, and tenth in the GTS category, in the second race.[9] Unzurrunzaga was classified eleventh in the Spanish GT Championship's GTS Driver's Championship, with six points.[10]
Following the Catalunya race, Unzurrunzaga entered the third round of the 2011 - 12 UAE GT Championship, held at Dubai Autodrome; however, he retired after 14 laps.[11] He finished 2011 by taking seventh overall, and fourth in the GTA category, in the following round, held at Yas Marina.[12] The fifth round of the season, and the first of 2012, was also held at Yas Marina; Unzurrunzaga won the first race of the day,[13] before taking second in the second race,[14] resulting in him finishing second overall.[15] The series then returned to Dubai, where Unzurrunzaga finished second.[16] The next round of the UAE GT Championship was also held at Dubai, but Unzurrunzaga was unable to start either race.[17] [18] The series then returned to Yas Marina, but Unzurrunzaga was not classified in the first race,[19] and did not compete in the second.[20] This would be the GT600's last race;[4] Unzurrunzaga returned to Europe, and replaced the GT600 with a Mosler MT900R.[21]