Radical SR300038 is Blue car with red splitter, side skirts and a Silver R on the nose. Car toured all over the US doing SCCA races in 2004 with Michael Vergers (a Pro driver who raced with Radical and LMES, Also set the Nürburgring record in an SR8) driving. It was very successful. Radical confirmed that this was a late 2002 build. Tim Greaves was the first owner. Reg Thurley of Sun State Racing said” We, Sun State racing collected “75 (SN38) from San Francisco Airport the w/e of the Thunder hill Enduro in Nov. 2002. It was driven by the owner Tim Greaves (also a RMS owner) and a quick UK driver named Jamie Derbyshire. The won the race and were pushed initially by Michael Vergers and Kevin Kalkoven in a sister car, until it was withdrawn because of overheating. The car was then shipped to Buttonwillow and prepared and taken on to Phoenix for an Evaluation by Bob Bondurant who drove it at Firebird along with Michael Vergers. On its return to BWRP, Morris of Spring Mountain had a test in it, this being Morris’s first taste of Radicals. It was then shipped to Canada as a show and demonstration car until it was spirited back into the States and appeared at the East Coast Radical Dealers. This action created many problems for Sun State Racing over Export and Import regulations. At this point in the cars life we lost trace of it although we believe it was raced by Radical’s man of the moment Dan McBreen. Phil Creighton of CMS may be able to shed more light on the car and it’s East coast adventures”
Phil Creighton said ” If this is the same car we did a bunch of demo days (Talladega GP, Louisiana, Road Atlanta) and at least a couple of Nationals including Sebring as in the Picture – Dan McBreen driving. We switched engines to a stock 1300 for all track days and the car was sold in 1500 form to a banker in Charlotte that ran it for an hour and parked it. It was a top quality car when McBreen sold it and needed nothing – every blemish was repaired with new parts on Tim Greaves instructions. I don’t think Function auto could have known it’s history – no one asked me. The banker wasn’t interested in track history, just hours on the engine which were about 20-24 I remember. I knew what it had done on the West Coast but it also got used without permission somewhere in Michigan on it’s way down from Canada”
