Ariel Atom 'ring lap: Time For Tea?
Time for tea and a lie down, possibly, after a lap of the Nordschleife in an Atom with our man Dale
"Erm, I'm not sure I should," I offer, somewhat weakly. Something in the back of my head is ringing a warning bell. It's muffled by the imagined roar of blown VTEC, but I can still hear it.
"Ah, come on," says the car's owner Neil. "You'll love it. Take it for a lap!"
I'm silent. He's right, I will. A 2010-model Ariel Atom with the 2.0-litre K20 motor plucked from a Honda Civic Type R with a blower fitted. No aero. Semi-slicks.
"You know, if there was a GP track session I'd be all over it like a tramp on chips," I say. "But I'm not sure the Nordschleife is the place to learn about the limits of something I've never driven before."
And that's how, one 15-minute session of the GP track later, I find myself rolling out on to the Nordschleife in the video you can watch below....
[Source: BridgeToGantry via YouTube]
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