[Donington 2011] My first visit to Donington

[B1 RMA]

Not sure if i should be embarrassed about this having owned a Lotus car on and off since 1972 and have never visited the show before. The first thing to strike me was the Elise GT1 in the foyer I just couldn't stop going back and admiring it, and as luck would have it Graham sat next to me at the dinner table Saturday night so I got to know a lot more about the car. The word awesome is so over used these days it has been de-valued but the effort put into the car and the final result can only be described as awesome. To cap it off Graham removed the engine cover with a little help from me and my newly aquired friends from Holland and Germany and have to admit to taking about 30 photographs of everything on the car. I really enjoyed the whole thing and the dinner Saturday night with the members of this forum was great plus I had the chance of meeting and chatting to so many new people. Well done Bibs I'm sure you put a lot of effort into this whole thing and in my opinion it was worth it.

[Bibs]

Good to see you there David and I'm amazed it's your first time. That was a quiet show compared to ones in the past, fingers crossed it gains momentum again.

[Kimbers]

So no Paper Aeroplane competition at 4am then?

[rocket63]

Nope, not this year mate. Most of the experienced Aviators were not available this year

[Dave Eds]

Yeah but we had a 2am fireman on Friday night though (not that he remembered on Saturday)!