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Couple of reasons for you to spend the next ten minutes or so with this video despite the awful racket from something shaking on the camera and the plentiful yet barely comprehensible commentary from our (newly married btw) friend Dale:

First: we've waxed poetic about the Renault R26 R before. It's a mad car and all props to La Regie for having the balls to build it. A concept after our own heart . Magnifique!

Second: just look at it go... The thing RIPS! Consider this is a street legal car as delivered from the factory, stock tires, stock brakes and the others are race cars. This Megane is nuts for what it is and Dale is as usual trying to get his passenger to yell for mercy. Actually comes pretty close to losing the car in a couple of turns but hey, that's the Dale way (right CG?).

Third you get to see a couple of very cool cars wiz by, and you get to dream about being there....

I think you'll like it...(oh and you can rent this car from RSR Nürburg...just tell them Axis sent you !)





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Tiff does the Renault R26.R

...I guessing even a hotter Caterham would not have done much better in those conditions. In any case Mr.Needell likes the Renault track day special!

As it turns out, our friends at RSR Nürburg just announced they have added a Renault R26.R to their rental fleet starting March 1st.    The ultimate hot hatch on the ultimate track,  perfect!

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Renault Megane R26.R
A new trend, factory stripped cars. Fiat has the 500 Abarth Assetto Corse, now something much juicer, a version of the Megane F1 that is a full 123kg/271lbs lighter and comes with a real limited slip differential and titanium exhaust.

450 of these little track toys will go on sale in the fall (none for us...). Their should embarrass quite a few fancy cars at the Nürburgring next year. As it is it set the Nürburgring lap record for front wheel drive cars with 8:17! For reference, that is faster than an e46 M3, an Exige S or a Cayman S...

More pictures and video after the jump...