Lotus F1 Factory Tour 17 March

[Stef]

Thought I should share this offer I received. Anyone interested?


This is an exclusive opportunity to receive a personal formula 1
factory tour by an employee of Lotus who will show what is involved in
making a formula 1 car . The money raised will go towards the Brackley
Athletic Girls football tour. For more details please contact
Pete Hope, (petehope70@googlemail.com)


Lotus F1 Team Factory Tour


Whiteways Technical Centre
Enstone
Chipping Norton Oxfordshire
OX7 4EE

Saturday 17th March at 14:00 Price £20.00 per ticket

This is an exclusive opportunity to receive a personal formula 1
factory tour by an employee of Lotus who will show what is involved in
making a formula 1 car . The money raised will go towards the Brackley
Athletic Girls football tour. For more details please contact
Pete Hope, (petehope70@googlemail.com)

Nestling deep in Oxfordshire, Lotus F1 Team’s home of the Whiteways
Technical Centre on the outskirts of the village of Enstone, near
Chipping Norton, is an unexpected technical tour de force nestling in
the verdant farmland.

Amidst the butterflies and orchids, a state of the art 60% scale wind
tunnel, ‘Driver in the Loop’ simulator and full production facility for
Formula 1 cars can be found, all artfully designed to blend into the
local countryside and not impact on the lives of the local inhabitants.

The team moved here in 1992 in its Benetton guise after initially being
formed as Toleman Motorsport and entering the 1981 Formula 1 World
Championship from its former base in Witney, just under 20 kilometres
away.

Just two years after arriving at Enstone, the first World Championship
silverware made an appearance thanks to Michael Schumacher winning the
1994 Drivers’ Championship, with the same feat accomplished the
following season along with the Constructors’ Championship title too.

For 2002, the team became Renault F1 Team, and Fernando Alonso led the
squad to glory for the 2005-6 Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship
titles to the added to the roster.

Now with the Lotus F1 Team name above the door, Enstone continues to
develop as a centre of motorsport excellence with the 60% scale wind
tunnel added in 2011 and the ‘Driver in the Loop’ simulator coming
online in 2012

[nyssa7]

For anyone hesitating on this, I've been there twice when they were called Renault. Sat in one of Alonzo's cars the first time, they are pretty fair on allowing pictures of most things there and will tell you what you can't shoot. You'll never see anywhere so clean and will be amazed at the weight of the ballast they use

Can't recommend this enough

[ShaunM]

I'd rather have a tour of the "Brackley Athletic Girls football club"...

Cars and Paddy's Day?

[Scott J]

A good idea for charity but off topic

I find it hard to be impressed by ex Toleman ex BenElton team calling themselves Lotus. I remember the days when JPS Team Lotus were in their pomp and glory and Toleman were the newbies. modern marketing bah humbug rant over.