Tuesday 25th September 2001

Supercar Rally 2001

Lotus Elise GT1 amongst the throng of supercars assembled in France for new event

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[tashman]

I was interested in the Lotus GT1 information. We (Force Lotus) are based in Australia. Does anyone know how to make contact with owners of such cars with a view of selling them or other special arrangements to display them in Australia during 2002?

[speedy t]

A nice gathering. Wish I had been there too. Luckily the Pistonheads was there for the rest us! --- http://mapage.noos.fr/jcorbel/supercars/index.htm A lot of images from the above page were missing!? Nice images anyway, would like to see the rest too!

[pandolfi]

hello, I'm Frank, one of Tintin reporter I add that the car is not from india but an island near cuba, Bonnaire in Neederlands India about the link page with 7 Mo pictures , all are ok but like it's heavy you've got to make page up, page down with the explorer to get connected

[griffith]

I too am a big Sportscar fan, and I have got to say that it looked like a great gathering! Mind you as a TVR owner, I was a little disappointed not to see a Speed 12... Maybe next year, sort it out Mr Wheeler!

[PetrolTed]

quote: http://mapage.noos.fr/jcorbel/supercars/index.htm A lot of images from the above page were missing!? Nice images anyway, would like to see the rest too!

The page times out because there are so many images. You need to right click on the broken images and click 'Show Image' and it will download it.

[smeagol]

The GT1 begs the question of why Lotus don't bring out a V8 road Elise. It looks superb and would be the next supercar for Lotus. Price it the same as the Esprit and it would sell like hotcakes. You could even all it Exige V8. The esprit is nice but it does show its age. I liked Jeremy Clarcksons comment. "...the Esprit is like the Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, It started on vinyl, then tape, 8 track, and now CD.. but I still like the tune.." I wanna GT1.....

[carter]

After a couple of years with the program, this is one of the coolest things you have offered. If we only had this sort of gathering in the US.

[pandolfi]

others cars joined the group later, as black zonda or noble GTO pictures on wet road are on http://perso.club-internet.fr/lchaboud/sorties/supercar/photos/supercar.htm

[V12 inside]

:drool: a gt1, pleez.... lotus rullez!

[mmertens]

quote:
others cars joined the group later, as black zonda or noble GTO
pictures on wet road are on
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lchaboud/sorties/supercar/photos/supercar.htm

In this link, anyone knows what the rather ugly car in the first picture on the second row is? A sportscar (well sort of) on monstertruck wheels??

[pandolfi]

the dark blue one?
it's a mercedes chassis (class M, 4x4) called Contender.
see small videos of superrally cars on the wet on :
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lchaboud/sorties/supercar/videos/videosupercars.htm

[nellie]

Anybody know of any other sites with this sort of quality video (and sound) to view?

[smeagol]

I've played the video of the GT1 Lotus Sounds Superb I want one pleeeese Lotus you know you want to pleeeeeese

[thom]

ridiculous gathering: upper-class rally with cars driven outrageously slow with regards to their abilities....
Will someone ever have the ba*ls to organize discreetly a brand new Cannonball race???

[holbrooknr]

quote:
ridiculous gathering: upper-class rally with cars driven outrageously slow with regards to their abilities....
Will someone ever have the ba*ls to organize discreetly a brand new Cannonball race???

Did you not see the Ruby Wax program late this summer, she joined a european cannonball. The parts in britain were tame, a few celebs joined for parts of it (Damon Hill in a diablo did the uk bit, Vic Reeves did the whole thing iirc) but the latter stages were hardly slow driving, one guy writing off an f355 at 160mph+.

[Nightmare]

and they were, almost exclusively, a bunch of complete tw*ts!

[campbell]

I watched it, it wasnt to bad but it was a bunch of tossers Well I have to say this, they were

[Nightmare]

and they were, almost exclusively, a bunch of complete tw*ts!

[mr_tony]

re the doughnuts on the airport runway with 747's coming in to land. Just couldn't believe how twattish some people can get. (that might have been the year before this ones..... It was called the Gumball 3000 or some such thing...)

[smeagol]

I agree with Nightmare the Gumball rally was a FILM with stunts and closed roads, doing it for real just gives ammunition for the green "ban sportscars" front and if Damon Hill took part then he has gone down in my estimation.