‘World’s Fastest One-Make Racing Series’ – BAC Mono Cup announced for Winter 2024

► BAC launches its own race series
► Identical cars and full arrive-and-drive package
► Two heats and one final at every round

BAC (or Briggs Automotive Company to give it its full name) is best known for its small, super-lightweight road-going single seaters that snaffle up lap records like Max Verstappen does purple sectors in Grand Prix qualifying. A small outfit based in Liverpool (that now exports cars to 47 countries),it knows a thing or two about being market disruptors.

So, rather than do what every other performance car maker seems to be doing and build an SUV, BAC has gone and created itself a one-make racing series set to kick-off in 2024 in Saudi Arabia. Called the Mono Cup, it’ll use an adapted racing version of the Mono and promises to deliver an exciting experience for both viewers and drivers alike.

To find out more, we sat down with Ian Briggs (founder and design director at BAC) for a quick chat to see what the series is all about.

Well, I think that the first thing is obviously that it’s a single seater formula style. Unlike Formula cars, it has enclosed wheels. So, in terms of safety in the kind of incidents that you would sometimes see in single seaters, then it obviously avoids that. Also, I think the big one is performance. The positioning of the of the Mono Cup is in quite a narrow void, or almost a blurred boundary between the upper echelons of single-make championship racing, which you would single out the likes of Porsche Supercup, Lamborghini Trofeo and Ferrari Challenge – that type of series – and then the Formula 4, 3 and 2 space which is predominantly made up of career aspirational drivers.

In that void, you’ve obviously got the crossover from single-make series that I mentioned into GT3, Blancpain, that kind of thing, where budgets are several million euros a year and cars are very expensive. It’s populated by a mixture of gentleman drivers and professional drivers and Mono Cup will be similar in the sense that it’s an International C race licence (required to partake).

We are vying to be the fastest one make championship in the world. We know from our performance testing with the current cars where we sit, and we know that the