Lotus Elan Central

Going out with a friend to collect his Manthey GT3 coming back Wed night - I am going in the Lotus Elan Turbo

Never been round it in the Elan - so it will lose it's cherry..................

Ring open Monday and Tuesday evening and all day Wednesday

Martin

You lucky sod, wish i had the money to go myself

Have a good trip Martin and come back with a report on how the Elan handles

Only going thro the extreme generosity of a friend!!! he needs a lift to bring the GT3 back for it's MOT and we have done this before - we used to have E30 M3 BMw's

I will report back how it goes - but I thought you had done some laps of the Ring Monty? I remember seeing Dico out there by the petrol station parrallel to Dottinger Hohe straight

this will add about a dozen laps to my total bringing it to well over 760

M

enojoy...you lucky git...I wish I was there...

I'll try - I might have to have the smile surgically removed when I get home though......................

Toll!

Und nehme ein paar schöne Bilder mit!

? Sorry dont get it

Excellent!

And bring a couple of nice photographs back (LEC) home!

OK I am going to do a trip report with photos

texas2201 wrote:Only going thro the extreme generosity of a friend!!! he needs a lift to bring the GT3 back for it's MOT and we have done this before - we used to have E30 M3 BMw's

I will report back how it goes - but I thought you had done some laps of the Ring Monty? I remember seeing Dico out there by the petrol station parrallel to Dottinger Hohe straight

this will add about a dozen laps to my total bringing it to well over 760

M

A few of us did a trip a few years ago and i was a passanger with Dico but he only did one lap also got a Pax with JimP in his M100 and a Pax in an Elise and didn`t even know the guy We all had a great trip and i`ve always wanted to go back again but in my own car.

Maybe i could tag along with yourself next year since you`ve done 760 + laps or maybe some of the LECers might do another trip

That would be great Monty - I will definately be over there next year maybe we could tag along with the SELOC guys who seem to organise a trip every year now?

More than happy to show you the lines and give some instruction - only most of my laps have been in rwd in the E30 M3 - so they will probably not be the best fwd lines

Yep I only did one lap but it was a fast one!

12.5 minutes

Have a great trip Martin. Look forward to the pics.

Nurburgring 2010

1- Dico

Dico wrote:Yep I only did one lap but it was a fast one!

12.5 minutes

Apparently some fat bloke off the telly did it in a diesel a full 2½ minutes quicker than that.......... and some German tart in a van.

I was doing 830 BTG in the E30 M3

GeoffSmith wrote:

Dico wrote:Yep I only did one lap but it was a fast one!

12.5 minutes

Apparently some fat bloke off the telly did it in a diesel a full 2½ minutes quicker than that.......... and some German tart in a van.

Well I certainly wasn't going to mention that!

Oh, all right then

Gawd I hope you recognised my sarcasm!

I still beat ChrisT mind

Wheres the vid Murph?

come out next year Dico and I will give you a pax lap...............4 mins quicker..........

Dico wrote:Gawd I hope you recognised my sarcasm!

I still beat ChrisT mind

Wheres the vid Murph?

It was your camcorder mate lol


Can`t blame dico for taking it easy, i`d be the same for my 1st lap. But i`d do more than one lap to start with

Even JimP`s wife did a lap

They were the days

I can still remember my first lap following a friend who said he was going steady - I was sh*t**g bricks and thought I was going to die.................... i.e. I am never going to get round that corner at that speed

Next year is my, well, let's say notable birthday. Taking someone else's car around the Ring sounds like fun.

You can hire various sorts, but for Ring newbies they suggest the Renaults. That sounds like a compromise too far - but you can book an instruction day in an Exige. Has anyone done this?