The company, based in Ivatt Way, Peterborough, is looking for up to 10 staff to assemble its wide range of racing cars, from its baby SR4 model to the high-end Le Mans Prototype car.

Radical co-founder Phil Abbott said: "We need quality staff across the company, to help us increase production and achieve efficiency and quality targets. This is a great opportunity to join the world's largest sports racing car manufacturing team."

The Peterborough factory, which employs more than 100 people, has a number of positions that need to be filled.

These include a production/cost analysis engineer, parts/stores personnel, race engine builders, glass fibre laminators, bodywork finishers, race team mechanics, race car assemblers, millers and turner.

Radical produces about 150 hand-built cars each year, primarily to order, with 80 per cent of them destined for export.

The cars are shipped to countries such as USA and Australia and, from early 2008, China, and new markets are being developed in the Middle East.

"With the help of ever- increasing high-quality distributors around the world, we have made our own niche in the market," said director, and co-founder, Mick Hyde.

All the cars are hand-built and everything is manufactured in-house, including engines, chassis, suspension and bodywork.

As a measure of Radical's confidence in the future, the company has just taken delivery of a 14-tonne horizontal borer for machining engine blocks.

"We are the only company our kind to produce our own engines," added Mick.

The cars are predominantly racing type, but can be road legal when fitted with the proper kit.

The range kicks in with the baby SR4, an "easy-to-drive" two-seater priced at about £20,000 plus VAT.

Also a two-seater is the Radical SR8, pictured, priced at about £95,000, weighing in at 650kg, its V8 engine developing 450bhp at 10,500rpm. It is extremely fast, especially around corners, with a quoted maximum speed of 185mph.

At about £400,000, Radical's Le Mans car – it finished the Le Mans 24 Hours race first time out – has "huge potential" in LMS and ALMS endurance races.

Mick and Phil started Radical in a small unit in Fengate, Peterborough, about 12 years ago and moved to the Westwood site in 2002.

It has continued to expand, broadening its market outlet, taking on more staff and expanding its model range.

The future appears rosy at Radical.