If you are satisfied with being one of the crowd in a cluster of similar cars--and the typical race consists of attempting to pass the car ten feet ahead while trying to keep three guys off your tail--then an 800lb. P1 with 190 HP is not for you. If having fabulous brakes and a flat shifter that allows three down shifts in two seconds doesn't convince you, then keep looking.
Jon Staudacher built eight race cars; five of them have set lap records. There is a reason for that.
Jon built dozens of aerobatic airplanes and many, many racing hydroplanes. He did not lose his touch when he decided to design race cars.
I am 78 years old-or I would keep racing. I jumped horses cross country-over stone walls, up and down banks and through streams for 32 years, and I have owned two airplanes that I flew almost 30,000 miles. None of that comes close to driving the two Staudacher cars that I have owned.
You don't have to be a pro to drive this car, but it could make you into one.