Elise Trophy on TV Friday night

[ajk]

Coverage of the Lotus on Track Elise Trophy Races at Brands Hatch (24th March)
Motors TV - Fri 6th April - 8pm (repeated 9th, 10th & 12th)
Set your Sky plus
www.motorstv.com/site/pop_prog.php?&Idarbo=22&Idarbo1=23&Idarbo2=&lg=2&content=5&id=139341

Race report:
www.lotrdc.com/Brands_Hatch_Race_Report

Cheers,
Andrew.
www.lotrdc.com

[ajk]

For those of you without access to Motors TV a public version of the Race Television (www.race.tv) programme is now available:

Elise Trophy Motors TV Brands Hatch March 2007 part one:
www.video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8658572406627485279

Part two:
www.video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1863982342338884148

If you're interested in TV/Media sponsorship of further rounds of the Elise Trophy, please get in touch - [e-mail]

[redmax]

Looked really good (and really tempting!) Andrew W is going to take some beating..!

[Trackside]

Thanks, Andrew. Good to see the stuff I missed whilst I was there.

[redmax]

Just had a brief skim through the regs. If you were to run in class A (std & slightly modified), what would you have to change on the car to make it capable of being competitive?

Cheers

Jason

[ajk]

Jason, analysing the results from the scratch race at Brands, the top 6 in class A makes was:
1 Exige S2
2 Elise S1 111s
3 Elise S2 135R
4 Elise S2 111s
5 Elise S1 S160
6 Elise S1 111s

Beforehand I'd have said that an S1 S160 would be the class of the field but that doesn't seem to be the case so far - maybe the tiny power band on the 160 engine is too restrictive? Or suffer from not having a CR box?

I reckon an S1 with ~160bp, CR box, one way adjustable dampers (e.g. Nitrons) & decent pads (e.g. Pagid RS1-4s) would be right up there.

Edited by ajk on Tuesday 10th April 18:05

[redlake27]

Congratulations to everyone involved in this series.

I have personally started two championships myself and know how difficult it is to get drivers to sign up for the first year. OK, I know a lot of these cars already existed in other series, but surely this is the biggest grid for the first ever round of any national championship?

Very impressive!

[ajk]

In fact only a handful of cars on the grid at Brands had been raced in other series: definitely less than 10 and may be only ~5.
All the others have been prepped over the winter for this series.
I think I'm right in saying it was the first time ever a one marque series has launched at Brands Hatch with two full 32 car grids on a single day.
So yes we're dead chuffed with the interest so far.
Roll on Snetterton on the 22nd

Cheers,
Andrew.
www.lotrdc.com

[Piglet]

Finally got round to watching this off the hard drive last night.

It looked pretty good, I was impressed at the driving standards given the numbers of novice drivers.

The fires were pretty impressive...well done to the driver of the second burning car who I gather managed to drive it straight to the fire truck!