Praga, is a european based production company that has over a century of experience building and designing everything from road cars to farm trucks, military trucks, tanks, motorcycles, and airplanes, with their most well known products being purpose built racecars and go karts.

For the first time in 68 years, Praga has debuted a “road car” with an appropriately chosen limited production run of 68. Given the name R1R, this incredible car definitely stands out among the other group CN type cars.

This beautiful beast weighs only 1,500 lbs, features an LMP inspired design, has a center positioned seat (with an option to cram a passenger seat in), generates enough downforce at 124 mph to theoretically drive upside down — which translates into insane cornering speeds IRL, can be legally driven to and from the track (in Europe anyway), and is apparently great for grabbing Italian food with friends on a rainy day.

The R1R is mid-engine and powered by a longitudinally mounted Renault Sport 2.0-liter four cylinder, F4R 832 engine. With an in-house built and designed Praga turbo kit strapped to it, this powerplant combo pushes output up to 390 horsepower at 6,750 rpm (can be limited to 330) and 391 lb-ft of torque at 4,200 rpm, giving the R1R an incredible 3.85 horsepower per pound.

Using the shape of a teardrop as their design influence, the carbon composite monocoque, carbon/kevlar strengthened flooring, front and rear crash boxes, and side mounted crumple zones are all derived directly from its FiA spec Praga R1 older sibling, and is produced using the same equipment as Formula 1 teams.

This obviously isn’t something you’re going to be driving to and from work in every day. It’s basically a go kart, even down to the steering column separating the brake and gas pedal; so hopefully you’ve perfected your left foot braking. 

From a safety perspective, even if the monocoque exceeds FiA standards, unless you’re planning on wearing a helmet and HANS device everywhere — that five point harness is just going to break your neck in a minor fender bender.

Proven by the UK based performance car magazine Evo in the video above, the R1R truly is a full blown racecar with turn signals and a license plate bracket thrown on just to let you drive it to and from the track, or to get constant stares everywhere you go on your weekend drive if you feel like you’re not getting enough attention at home.