The Lotus Grand Tourers

I put the Excel through its' paces on Saturday on the Curborough Sprint Track in Satffs. Great fun! Excel did us proud, over 40 laps and never missed a beat...

Looks like you were doing it in the reverse direction of what I thought was the normal way around?

When I've done it in the Clan we went start - paddock - woodside -molehill - hairpin -straight.

Looks like you went start - paddock - straight - hairpin - molehill- woodside - paddock.

But then you can chop and change to make it interesting!

I found 'molehill' the most challenging followed by keeping it wide into the hairpin so you carry speed on to the straight!

All good fun and heart-stopping on the limit - like keeping your foot-in on paddock through to woodside - which you have to do in a rear engine car or it'll oversteer and spin.

Excel must have felt awesome on the tight narrow circuit with it's inherently-precise turn-in?

How much was your trackday? - iIt used to be a reasonable £50 for the day for Imp Club meetings.

They mixed things up a bit as the top loop can now be done as a figure of 8.

They have four patterns you can use A, B, C and D

A was basically driving around the outer bit of the track.

B was a figure of 8 where you crossed the track and wound up doing the top loop anti-clockwise

C I didn't do that pattern so I am not sure what it was

D Lap of the outer perimeter, then a figure of 8, then another perimeter lap to finish things off

It was £35 for the day through the Carlton Motor Club

I did 14 three lap sessions or thereabouts

£35! Fantastic value!

LotusExcel.net should maybe think about a day out there! (but not on a SUNDAY! )

Lotus-e-Clan wrote:£35! Fantastic value!

LotusExcel.net should maybe think about a day out there! (but not on a SUNDAY! )

I have already been invited to 2017 event, they are looking to sell more slots, so people from here could be ideal

Sounds like fun. Do they have a class for automatics!?

richardw wrote:Sounds like fun. Do they have a class for automatics!?

It wasn't timed, so you can run anything, my friend went around in his V8 auto Stag, did more than ok!