Rossa LM GT


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Rossa is a project by Roman Rusinov, a Russian GT and endurance racer. The plan is to make a race car for European (specifically the Fanatec GT2 European Challenge) and Russian GT series, as well as road legal supercar.
It's a collaboration of domestic engineers and designers with foreign expertise and foreign sourced components.

The car is based around a carbon fiber monocoque in a mid engined, RWD configuration.
It's gonna be powered by 800 hp Judd 5.0L V10.
The claimed curb weight is about 900 kg.
0-100 in 3.2s and 380 kph Vmax

The initial racing variant made to compete under GT2 regulations should be unveiled somewhere this year, while the road car is not expected to arrive earlier than 2026.
What's interesting is their ambition to make a GT3 version as well. To comply with the rule set, the road car would have to be homologated with a production volume of 400 cars (that's what they say, internet gives conflicting info about this). And I imagine the engine would need to change for this application.

The GT2 version should cost about €500k or above.

We don't yet know what the car will look like. Bellow are all the available teasers.
I got most of the info from this article.

You can follow the progress on their instagram.

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BTW, those beautiful dampers are the same Multimatic DSSV units that can be found on Ford Mustang GT3 and Ferrari 296 GT3.
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Now, before people start googling and get confused... This car, waiting to be unveiled, is mostly unrelated to the Rossa LM GT Concept, which the company used as a demo car to attract attention.

The concept car is basically a heavily modified Marussia B1 GT (running Audi 5.2L V10) made in single example.

Rossa LM GT Concept:
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Marussia B1 GT:
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Built in Russia or somewhere else?
I think it's safe enough to assume the chassis was made by some reputable shop in a western country. If it was all made in Russia, they would have let us know. And they won't disclose who they've partnered with for obvious reasons.

BTW, I just found out I missed two articles detailing this project, since starting this thread...

The first one says they're keeping the Audi V10 for the LM GT race car.
And sure enough, the V10 valve cover can be seen in one of the photos.
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The most recent one even shows renders of how the car is going to look, racing for a French team called Graff Racing in GTX class. They also say it's going to be certified for GT2 class soon.
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Not sure where this leaves their plan of running JUDD V10. Guess that one was way too unrealistic for practical use.
 
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Dubai-based supercar builder Rossa will make its sports car racing debut in next month’s Michelin 24H Dubai with an entry operated by French LMP2 stalwarts Graff.
The car, named the Rossa LM GT, will be entered into the GTX class, which is open to GT cars with a performance around GT2 level and often features or unhomologated vehicles.
It is set to go up against the Australian-built IRC GT as well as longtime Michelin 24H Series competitors Vortex.
Driving duties for the No. 797 car will be shared between former FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 racer Roman Rusinov, Evgeny Kireev and Harrison Newey.
Newey, who took a Rolex 24 at Daytona LMP2 class victory with DragonSpeed in 2020, returns to sports car racing for the first time since he wrapped up his sole DTM season with Team WRT in the same year.
 
Great to see something new on track, best of luck to them.
 
Best lap currently a 2:04, which is about the same as the 992 Cup cars, the GT3s are sub 2 minutes.

edit:

Can't park there mate.

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Bummer! Not sure if they've thrown in the towel or they're still wrenching on it.

They also collected penalties for false start and speeding in pits (x4).

I wonder how much ballast they had to add... The car should be mega light, considering how everything is made of carbon fiber.
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