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Have booked La Source too..

Would love to do this but sadly am away. Must pencil in for 2019..

Agreed, had a lovely chat with him and his wife at last year’s Goodwood revival. Amazing and inpirational man. Hope i make as much sense at that age if I’m still around..

Lovely.. congrats.

I have plates by four dot https://www.fourdotdesignerplates.co.uk/ on my exige.They do some cool designs, had some black and white union flag designs done which look like the spoiler end plates. Also I’ve had several sets of stick on plates done by Rick of highgate house http://www.highgatehouse.co.uk/ who can make the stick on plate as small as poss whilst keeping legal sized numbers etc.

Hi Michael, Am glad you have posted this, such a sad situation. I’ve luckily not had too much exposure to bullying, I was on the receiving end of a couple of incidents at school but fortunately ignored it and the bullies got bored and went away. I have some friends who’s son was a victim for a year or so.. very difficult as it took some serious complaints for his school to take any action.. eventually a boy was expelled and the situation is ok now. I think highlighting it raises awareness, I’m sure these days it is more difficult as so much socialising sadly is done on FB etc but raising awareness must help along the way. Schools must be answerable in law at some point, but don’t want to admit it goes on in their institution. Good luck.

Thanks for organising, can’t make it as am away.

2015 matte black v6 cup .. needs a bigger wing I feel Pic was taken the morning of the Silverstone track day a few weeks ago.

Thanks to @550superfast for pointing out the LOT Spa day.. have booked. Will we see any new 430 Evoras or 430 exiges out to play? @Trevsked @The Pits @Mark Allin https://www.lotus-on-track.com/book/product/spa-francorchamps-sunday-18-march-2018?v=f2e6e3b9bff5 I may take my snowboard in case it's snowed off..

Have they just added that Gary? Looked a while back and not sure I saw it. Need to sort diary out but would love to go

Wow! Looks amazing.

It's a tricky one.. having had a caterham for a couple of years, I loved it on track but felt extremely vulnerable on the road.. it only had the aeroscreen, no weather gear. I guess the 3-eleven is somewhat more substantial and safe, with the strength of the tub etc but the great thing about the exige is that it is very useable on the road and you don't have to worry too much about the weather or cold. Maybe get one of each ?

I really like the 400, was pretty good on track, I drove it at the 'ring, Silverstone GP, Hethel. As you say, great noise but that brings a lot of issues at most tracks and finding noisy enough limits is tricky. I think for one car that's very civilised on a run, great fun on a twisty road and will do track duty pretty well the 400 is a bargain.

Oh dear.. I keep looking at these pics of 3-elevens.. they do look soooooo good..

Good review George

Great car collection!

Tbf 3 of those wet and one brands indy which gets a bit dull after a few laps . Have done a few private track days with plenty of laps, maybe i'm just easy on the tyres ..

I've been lucky so far with my exige, one set of ZZR since I bought it in March, 9 trackdays, still have a reasonable amount of tread, one set of brake pads. I decided that the RS I had was too expensive for track when after 6 trackdays, a set of pads was £1300 + fitting, and the rear carbon discs were 45% worn, and £10k/axle. I don't think there are many cars as quick as yours that you could run on track for much less, maybe you've been unlucky

Haha, you definitely had a reasonable power advantage on the straights, I suspect not taking the corners at a constant jaunty angle might help too (with running costs too) Does look great fun though. Did you get the lsd fitted?

Thanks for the pax laps George, the car definitely has some shove...

It’s an age thing...

Maybe it says something about the numbers of auto express readers that drive or like Lotus's... Maybe they're all Capri drivers.

Congrats Mark, bit cleaner than when I saw it.. beautiful.

old vid.... also doesn't noble use Volvo v8 engines..?

V nice.. makes the old v6 cups look like a bargain too!