Sure, Spider Trophy was a natural evolution of the Renault tradition created several years before with Alpine GTA, Renault 5 Turbo and Renault 21 Turbo.

In Europe, Spider Trophy was often organized the Formula 1 Championship weekends.

Powered the a 180bhp version of the Clio Williams engine, Spider was equiped with a 6-speed, non synchro gearbox from Sadev, a cage side bar, specific brakes with 2 independant master cylinders and OZ wheels.

The french driver, Frank Lagorce won the first Spider Trophy championship, in 1996, the sweden Tommy Rustad won the second in 1997.