Tirrito Cars is the latest in a long line of aspirational supercar builders from Italy with the automobile in the blood with founder Andrea Tirrito hoping to follow in a famous tradition when he launches his new high performance sports car project, the Ayrton, at Top Marques Monaco in April.

The story of Tirrito Cars goes right back to when Andrea Tirrito was a youngster, his passion for the automobile ignited by time spent in his father’s bodyshop. From these beginnings he built his own go-kart using an old motorcycle engine before he surprised family and friends by creating an excellent replica of the Williams FW18 Formula 1 car - by the time he was just eighteen years old - his efforts apparently also earning the praise of the long-time English Formula 1 team and with the full working replica also making it onto magazine covers. In the following years he built more replicas of grand prix cars, this time tackling McLaren’s MP4-14, MP4-15 and MP4-16, which impressed onlookers with their both their accuracy and ability on the race tracks of Italy.

Andrea Tirrito’s real dream though was to build his own high performance road homologated car and this came about in 2006 with his first attempt at creating a true sports car, the Vajon RTT. This unique car was to be a taste of the future and he quickly went back to the drawing board to devise the Ayrton, which he named in honour of his admiration for the former Brazilian grand prix star.

Tirrito is aiming to build the Ayrton in three different specifications of power output, the versions dubbed the Ayrton R, Ayrton S and Ayrton T. Only basic technical details has been released, along with several photographs, as yet, but the car will be 4630mm long, 2050mm wide, 1200mm high and have a wheelbase of 2630mm. The engine will be a V10 format unit feeding power to the rear wheels via a 6-speed manual gearbox. The three specification levels will offer three different power outputs with the Ayrton R having 627 CV on tap while the S has 550 CV and the T coming in at 500 CV. Particular attention has been made to weight saving and as a consequence all versions will weigh in at 1120 kg. wheels will be 19-inch allround with 245/35 tyres at the front and 335/25 at the rear. There will be 6-pot brake calipers all round, with 400x34mm discs at the front and 390x34mm at the rear.