The pairing of Jerome Pelichet and Eugenie Decre finished 2^nd overall between the two Schlesser buggies in their Wildcat 200.

In spite of having nearly pulled out through engine trouble on the third stage and a fire at the finish of the 7^th the car once again showed how tough and competitive it is even against the top flight cars.

Another fantatstic result saw Edmond pelichet and Bernard Malferiol come home in sixth place to give the raid lynx team a fabulous reward for all their efforts.

Congratulations to the team for their outstanding result.

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We are very pleased to see the fantsatic result of four from the six Wildcats starting cross the finish line.

The Wildcats finished overall in the following positions:

Car 330 ~ Patrick Sireyjol & Rainer Wissmanns 19th Overall
Car 370 ~ Yves Fromont & Marie-Laure Reynaud 25th Overall
Car 391 ~ Eric Morin & Mayeul Barbet 39th Overall
Car 424 ~ Gilles Serinet & Pierre Couillet 53rd Overall

While the concept of a stripped out road car doubling as a track car isn’t a new one, the dirt road equivalent of the Road Racer is a bit more scarce. Corvette-engined dune buggies and various quads are plentiful in the region, but there’s no protection from the elements.

That’s where the $97,200 Wildcat 300STR comes in. Derived from the Dakar Rally ‘raid’ car of the same name, it’s aimed at those who want a road-legal off-roader with some serious dune-bashing abilities.

The mechanicals read very much like a racer. Built on a lightweight tubular spaceframe chassis surrounded by composite fibre-glass, it runs a 4-litre 270bhp Jaguar V8 through a close ratio five speed gearbox, heavy-duty diffs and drive shafts. 0 – 100kph is a claimed 5.8 sec.

If you fancy more performance, there’s also the $105K 400NSR and $135K 500DKR (complete with hydraulic rams for swift wheel changes) with torquier, more powerful engines.

The Wildcat’s UK-based distributor, Qt Services, has partnered with Dubai-based Saluki Motorsport (an automotive garage experienced in off-road motorsport) to offer service and after-sales support for the Wildcat. ‘You can treat it as a road car,’ says Saluki Motorsport’s Mark Powell. ‘But really, it’s for having fun in’.