Founder Of Rodin Cars David Dicker To Launch The World’s Fastest Road Racing Car

David Dicker, a founder of ASX-listed computer hardware company Dicker Data Limited (ASX: DDR), fuels his 13-year quest to create a road car faster than Formula-One. In the South Island of New Zealand, a IT tycoon pops the hood to design and build his dream car Rodin FZERO, which he imagines will be the fastest road racing car in the world.

A 66-year old man with long white hair has been creating madness in the car world under his self-owned brand Rodin Cars. Located in North Canterbury, New Zealand, Rodin Cars is a car company that is into the business of designing, testing, developing and manufacturing the exceptionally high-performance cars for the track and the road.

David’s car company Rodin is a creation of his long-back dream of building cars at the time he already had a successful IT distribution business in Australia. From sailing boats to now creating the fastest road car, David always believed in ‘do it ourselves’ attitude that allows him and his small team of young Kiwi engineers control every aspect of the business, from design and testing, through to building, developing and sales.

In 2005, David moved to the far north of New Zealand’s South Island to chase his dream of building the fastest road car in the world. This over 1400 acres property is located on the fronts of tar sealed road and is cloaked under the sheds with not many people aware of what’s happening around.

In a media interview, Rodin’s senior management told that this cloak-and-dagger approach was in action till the end of 2016, i.e. the time when Rodin Cars allowed its first three employees to step into the facility for installing all the machinery required beside completing three test tracks.

Stars-Wars looking vehicle Rodin FZERO is like a fighter plane on wheels that just have a one-seat for the driver, designed with the objective of lapping faster than any other traditional two-seater race cars.

As per the media report, Rodin FZERO would have a V10 four-litre engine and would weigh almost half of small hatchback. This one-seater track car will place a driver in an enclosed air-conditioned cockpit, with the clutch and shift paddles to be operated from the steering wheel, told industry reviewers.

The whole project is backed by a team of ten people, including Dicker, with a seemingly inexhaustible budget for investment in cutting-edge technology. As per the reviewers’ report, the team has built around five different prototypes for the FZERO steering wheel and is now busy making sixth and hopefully the final one to end its search of absolute perfection.

After launching the track car version of FZERO, David’s ultimate plan is to launch its road car version; something that has never been seen or experienced by people in the world. This outlines David Dicker’s vision to create the world’s fastest car that would be commercially available for people at what must seem like a big beast in their collection of fast toys.

David Dicker’s actions and success well delineate him as a dreamer, doer and creator!

Recently, Dicker acquired all the commercial rights and components to the 2011 Lotus 125 project. Lotus T125 was an F1-style sports car built by British automotive company Lotus Cars. It was an ultimate two-seater track toy that any budding racing driver could want for its 640-horsepower Cosworth V8 engine and something most extraordinary available commercially in the car world. But just five of these cars were sold as the project didn’t get off the ground ever.

Sydney-born racer cum entrepreneur David Dicker is the one who still believes in the project and, therefore, purchased all the commercial rights to redevelop these cars, which will be called Rodin FZEDs.

Overview of David Dicker’s Australia-based IT company- Dicker Data Limited

Formed in 1978, Dicker Data Limited is a leading computer hardware and technology distributor in Australia and New Zealand. The company has a partner base of more than 5,000 resellers to whom Dicker Data distributes a wide range of product portfolio that includes the product of leading technology vendors across the globe, such as Hewlett, Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Lenovo, HP and Microsoft among others.

On 1 July 2019, Dicker Data announced that the company has secured a new distribution agreement with NYSE-listed Honeywell that marks the company’s entrance into the industrial scanner and printer market.

The agreement that spans both Australia and New Zealand provides full access to Dicker Data for the entire AIDC range, which includes industrial printers, ruggedised scanners, enterprise mobility tablets and their industry-leading Mobility Edge platform.

Chairman and CEO, David Dicker, Dicker Data Limited, stated: With many of DDR’s r 5,000 strong reseller base already operating in industrial scanner and printer market, the company believes that there is a significant opportunity lying ahead to capitalise on.

Dicker Data’s stock price surged up by 2.553% to last trade at $7.230 on 25 July 2019. DDR price to earnings multiple stands at 34.870x with a market capitalisation of $1.14 billion.

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