Pics & report of Castle Combe Track Day

[cheekymonkey]

Did the Westover Castle Combe track day yesterday... what an absolutely amazing day. Excellent organisation by all of the Westover team, and the Castle Combe staff.

It was great to see such a great spread of cars, and from our point of view... just how good an Elise is in the right hands.

Although I didnt manage to squeeze any flying laps in the demo 220S (which was AMAZINGLY FAST) I got a few in the 111R by one of the Lotus test drivers who were on hand throughout the day, that really showed me a thing or two!

I have to say my last session was without a doubt my best, it all really came together and seemed to be catching and overtaking lots of other folks in much more powerful cars. (especially happy about doing a Boxster S / Carrera 4S / TVR 350 / Merc SL55 EMG )

Good to meet lots of other fellow lotus fanatics, (James / Shelly / Richard / Calvin / Simon WP, and many others)

Thanks to Simon for the "interesting" PAX ride where we ended up having a very close encounter with a tyre wall

Hope to see some more of the BOLOC massif at the next one in October!

[S Works]

Some great pics of you and the car there stiggymonkey

[cheekymonkey]

S Works said:

Some great pics of you and the car there stiggymonkey

cheers fella, particularly chuffed about the amount of time i gained on the porker and the Merc, from the photo times i think that was 3 laps in a row

PS... some say i have.....

Edited by cheekymonkey on Wednesday 28th June 16:44

[TonyHetherington]

You can see how much you made on each photo over the SLK/Boxster.

Fantastic pictures and love the look of your car too (I'm biased )

[cheekymonkey]

[pennpromo]

What you need to know is that the Merc was an AMG SLK55, it sounded like a Spitfire going down the straight until it changed up and slurred its way through the slushmatic box ! Cheekymonkey is right, it really is amazing how an Elise/ Exige holds its own on any track day. In typical trackday fashion a TVR died, a purple Chimera with all sorts of add ons and trackday tyres stuffed it really big time into the tyre wall just out of Quarry, ended the day. When it got back to the pits it was probably a right off, axle all pulled out loads of body damage.
Really top day, managed a session in the Exige S with Alistair McQueen which was awesome, really learnt how to lean on the brakes and carry speed through the corners. Great little car, the motor sounds like a swarm of hornets ehind your head. Terrific torque from about 4,000 RPM, obviously faser than a standard Exige, but I wonder how much ... Difficult to justify the say £12K that it would cost to upgrade. Chris Amey offered to get me another metallic black one and change it over with number plates transfer at a service so the wife wouldn't find out !
You all missed a really good day out !