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A few photos of the Mahiki Racing Lotus Emira GT4's, from the weekend's practice and qualifying for the British GT Championship at Oulton Park.

Sunset over Oulton Park on Saturday evening.

Finally got round to editing my photos from a wonderful day.

I went ahead and ordered some mats last Tuesday night, through Finestcarmats, although delivery address sticker stated Carsio and they were delivered on the Thursday. Made to order and cut to OEM pattern, fit perfectly edge to edge in footwell.

By chance came up on my phone in the last couple of days. There are a couple of UK based companys offering bespoke fit rubber mats for the Evora, 3mm thick with an embossed checker plate pattern. Also produce carpet version in choice of qualities with custom options. finestcarmats.co.uk carsiocarmats.co.uk I have no dealings with above, but may be worth a look.

I just saw the price in Dollars. I didn't see an address, which is always a bit worrying.

Post popped up on Instagram. New company based in the US making carbon parts, currently only available for the Evora but, looks like other models to follow. http://carbonlotus.com Without the www.

I should invest in a C of P really to go with the car, especially now a Black and Gold version is available.

Almost 7 years, with a 2010 Evora NA and no major issues. Only cover about 3000 miles a year, but serviced every year. Ex Gavan Kershaw company car, I was fortunate to introduce myself to him at the Lotus 70th Anniversary, when he had finished his track display. Before I had chance to ask, he said didn't drive my car like he had just driven on track and that he had the CR gearbox fitted, which I think was an optional extra in 2010.

Some photo's from the 1984 Motorshow, when I was lucky to get access onto the Lotus stand. Me and my brother as young teenagers, getting to sit in the cars.

Blue Exige Sport 380 in Abersoch today and a red Esprit yesterday, which, I personally didn't see, so I don't know which model.

I think Red Bull are pushing the incident, more due to the financial impact, now that budgets are capped. They have the means to spend more than the set budget, but are now limited on what they can spend, any accident repair costs, will reduce, what's left in the pot, for rest of the season. Which may be why they went public with the cost to rebuild Max's car (1.3 million), that's money that could have been spent on developments. If it's accepted that Lewis was at fault, then Red Bull may want compensation from Mercedes or a change to the budget rules, where certain things are exempt. Are we going to end up with teams claiming off each other and drivers exchanging insurance details, after a coming together, with the team saying over the radio, 'are you OK', followed by 'don't accept liability'. Although with drivers, it's always the other drivers fault.

Maybe a result of over stiff suspension, to compensate for chassis flex and why for the GT3/GT2, they have to install all that scaffolding in the back, to stiffen the whole thing up. Although the owners will probably say it's a roll cage, to comply with racing homolgation. I've only been in a 911, once in the 80's, I just remember the ride being so hard.

Black Evora belonging to Johnny Mowlem (as featured in Absolute Lotus magazine), spotted in BRDC Silverstone car park, during British GP weekend.

Yes, your right, I think there was about five head on crash tests, where the centre tub remained intact and they just replaced the front sub frame each time. From a previous post, on the Elise the body panels were not structural, torsional stiffness was 9800 Nm/deg. For the Evora, the body panels were structural, bare tub around 14000 Nm/deg , increased to 26000 Nm/deg, with integrated glass fibre composite side panels, A pillars, roof structure and windscreen surround. Sure I read somewhere, that it was 50% stiffer than a Ferrari F430, but I may be wrong. Facts and figures above from the 'Evora Suplime Supercar' book.