Thursday 25th June 2015

Highs and lows at Oulton Park: Time for Tea?

One man, his Lotus Elise and a topsy-turvy race at Oulton Park!

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We love a bit of onboard action here at PistonHeads. And there's nothing finer than kicking back with a cup of tea and reliving somebody else's epic racing weekend on a dull Thursday at the office. And this is a video with plenty of highs and lows.

It's the onboard camera from Ryan Savage's Elise S1 at Oulton Park in Race Two of the Lotus Elise Trophy. Poor Ryan's starting from pitlane, but you only have to wait until Cascades on the first lap for the excitement to begin. There are some great outbraking moves through the back of the field and some lap-long battles in the midfield. But also some disturbingly high-revving into the second gear hairpins, which may or may not have contributed to the unfortunate ending of this video. You're welcome to debate that theory in the comments below.

But we tip our cap to you Ryan, that was some brilliant racecraft, great overtaking and a thrilling video, even if it didn't have the perfect ending.

The next round of the Lotus Elise Trophy will be at Spa from July 9 to July 11.

Watch the video here.

 

[Pic from Ryan Savage via Twitter]

[wst]

Knowing what was going to happen was awful, I could hear something change a few laps before the end and the last straight before it went was awfully suspenseful.

Bloody good driving apart from that though!

[wst]

Is the new engine going to be to the same spec as the old one or is there any room for improvement anywhere?