Exige Cup 240+hp testday at Nurnburgring Grand Prix cirquit
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Today(thursday 23-03-2006) I had a great day out in Germany...firts the road where you can blast on some parts where its "aloud" then the good weather weve had, then the day on Nurnburgring at the Grand Prix Cirquit where RED Motorsport and many more racers tested their cars....(also race Vipers
and race porsches
nice stuf there!)
RED motorsport was there with some special race Exige's with around 300hp
and the Exige Cup 2005 racer and the new 2006 Exige 240 Cup racer and a very special not ready yet Exige Cup Bemani Carbon car! very lightweight...
I was there with a good friend( a girl also likes cars) and ofcorse Ian also a PH member, English but lifes and works in Germany for car makers! he is some sort of carpart? interior? designer...interesting and a nice bloke who is in the middle of ordering a Exige S or Cup and proberly in White...
It was a perfect day for the time of year...sun, cars, and...ok not much woman but we had anough to look at...
I think there were about 12? Lotussen most Exige and a few Elise(with big stuf under the bonnet)
Also a lot other fast cars on the Grand Prix cirquit and it was nice to loo close at all stuf around there, also the neighberhood is nice to drive around and ofcorse the Nordshleife next to it, but there was a BMW day going on and closed for others....
The Lightweight Carbon Exige Cup Bemani was so ligt, it flew in the air...at least one part did
the roof came of at highspeed but maybe that also had to do with the tall RED Sport man who drove it later they drove without that roof and I can tell you it was fetherligt stuf, the roof was later in their garage and I had it in my hands, nice matterial.
The way back from the Ring was a bit bussy with traffic(on the autobahn) but we had a great day! and on Sunday we go to the Wiesmann GT factory...Saterday and Sunday open day
Oh and a Navigation came in handy, though it had hard times to track me in all those curves on the road to the cirquit it was of road many times and had to reset itself on the road(the system)
Here are some pictures, proof weve bin there, Ian and GTRene at the Grand Prix Nurnburgring and some Exige pics
Ian said, we should have a go with some others of PH and we have to keep the Nurnburgring data on top...
Have fun:driving
here is Ian and me(GTRene) at work with the team
Here the Carbon Exige Cup Bemani
Here the car again without the blast away roof
It realy was not completely finished, but it was great to see and to look at all the specs and the things that were not in the car...lol totally striped preparing for race...
More pictures will follow..have to upload them first...
GTRene
>> Edited by GTRene on Thursday 23 March 21:57
and race porsches nice stuf there!) RED motorsport was there with some special race Exige's with around 300hp
and the Exige Cup 2005 racer and the new 2006 Exige 240 Cup racer and a very special not ready yet Exige Cup Bemani Carbon car! very lightweight... I was there with a good friend( a girl also likes cars) and ofcorse Ian also a PH member, English but lifes and works in Germany for car makers! he is some sort of carpart? interior? designer...interesting
and a nice bloke who is in the middle of ordering a Exige S or Cup and proberly in White... It was a perfect day for the time of year...sun, cars, and...ok not much woman
but we had anough to look at... I think there were about 12? Lotussen most Exige and a few Elise(with big stuf under the bonnet)
Also a lot other fast cars on the Grand Prix cirquit and it was nice to loo close at all stuf around there, also the neighberhood is nice to drive around and ofcorse the Nordshleife next to it, but there was a BMW day going on and closed for others....
The Lightweight Carbon Exige Cup Bemani was so ligt, it flew in the air...at least one part did
the roof came of at highspeed but maybe that also had to do with the tall RED Sport man who drove it later they drove without that roof and I can tell you it was fetherligt stuf, the roof was later in their garage and I had it in my hands, nice matterial. The way back from the Ring was a bit bussy with traffic(on the autobahn) but we had a great day! and on Sunday we go to the Wiesmann GT factory...Saterday and Sunday open day
Oh and a Navigation came in handy, though it had hard times to track me in all those curves on the road to the cirquit
it was of road many times and had to reset itself on the road(the system) Here are some pictures, proof weve bin there, Ian and GTRene at the Grand Prix Nurnburgring and some Exige pics
Ian said, we should have a go with some others of PH and we have to keep the Nurnburgring data on top...
Have fun:driving
here is Ian and me(GTRene) at work
with the team Here the Carbon Exige Cup Bemani
Here the car again without the blast away roof
It realy was not completely finished, but it was great to see and to look at all the specs and the things that were not in the car...lol totally striped preparing for race...
More pictures will follow..have to upload them first...
GTRene
>> Edited by GTRene on Thursday 23 March 21:57
Nice one Rene 
Its always good to hear from someone who has so much enthusiasm for his cars, especially the Elise/Exige.
It is my great ambition one day (maybe when the kids have grown up) to drive the old Nurmbergring with the ghosts of the old Auto Unions and Mercedes thundering around. Looks like your had a great day at the GP circuit - keep sending the reports, I enjoy reading them.
Its always good to hear from someone who has so much enthusiasm for his cars, especially the Elise/Exige.
It is my great ambition one day (maybe when the kids have grown up) to drive the old Nurmbergring with the ghosts of the old Auto Unions and Mercedes thundering around. Looks like your had a great day at the GP circuit - keep sending the reports, I enjoy reading them.
The Story continous
All in all I had a great day, new ideas and a face of a PH member who was there to make his choise more wise? with 5 days to go to make it deffinitaly...the point of no return...the Lotus Order can't be changed anymore after that moment, so what will it be the Lotus Exige S white....or the Lotus Exige Cup 240 race...with some stuf that gets in the way like the fire-botle and the rollbar that gets in his way he is also around 1.80 like me(nice chap)? but he has a longer upperbody so he can't sit on the passengers seat cose of that rolbar! and also difficult with helmet at the steering site not for me though but its also harder to get in and when your big its a bit crampy and the rollbar has some dangerous open pipe on headhight
I missed that point when I first sat into such car...but then I have a other body type and it fits me ok...though seing all that I better go for a street version! easyer to life with day to day
So it was a good day to make some points hard and choises better for what you like or can life with!
Also good to hear those SC Exige's go...very nice, the 2006 Exige Cup 240 had a standard exhaust and sounded quit...a bit to quit but a stage 2 would be to loud for that cirquit so a stage 1 will do thanks
Here some more pictures that tells the story themselfs
The 2005 Cup racer...
And here she is...the lovely 2006 Cup 240 racer
And no that not me whos driving but they are friendly people at RED Motorsport
Up for the next few testing laps...
And there was also a nice black Bemani Exige...
yummie
It was hard to leave that place...leaving all those lovely babes on that cirquit, but "I'll be back"
Oh and this was a flying lap hard to get on picture it was sooooooooooooooooo fast
GTRene
>> Edited by GTRene on Thursday 23 March 22:32
All in all I had a great day, new ideas and a face of a PH member who was there to make his choise more wise? with 5 days to go to make it deffinitaly...the point of no return...the Lotus Order can't be changed anymore after that moment, so what will it be the Lotus Exige S white....or the Lotus Exige Cup 240 race...with some stuf that gets in the way like the fire-botle and the rollbar that gets in his way
he is also around 1.80 like me(nice chap)? but he has a longer upperbody so he can't sit on the passengers seat cose of that rolbar! and also difficult with helmet at the steering site not for me though but its also harder to get in and when your big its a bit crampy and the rollbar has some dangerous open pipe on headhight I missed that point when I first sat into such car...but then I have a other body type and it fits me ok...though seing all that I better go for a street version! easyer to life with day to day
So it was a good day to make some points hard and choises better for what you like or can life with!
Also good to hear those SC Exige's go...very nice, the 2006 Exige Cup 240 had a standard exhaust and sounded quit...a bit to quit but a stage 2 would be to loud for that cirquit so a stage 1 will do thanks
Here some more pictures that tells the story themselfs
The 2005 Cup racer...
And here she is...the lovely 2006 Cup 240 racer
And no that not me whos driving
but they are friendly people at RED Motorsport Up for the next few testing laps...
And there was also a nice black
Bemani Exige... yummie
It was hard to leave that place...leaving all those lovely babes on that cirquit, but "I'll be back"
Oh and this was a flying lap
hard to get on picture it was sooooooooooooooooo fast GTRene
>> Edited by GTRene on Thursday 23 March 22:32
wacattack said:
Im not so keen on the paint job
there were a lot of stone chips on that cirquit
Or they going the BMW route leaving some carbon parts unpaint
that way you never have to be concerned about stonechipping your paintwork No realy the car was'nt finished but they want to race because they planed it that day, but realy it was a very interesting car with all that special parts every where
GTRene
TIPPER said:
Nice one Rene
Its always good to hear from someone who has so much enthusiasm for his cars, especially the Elise/Exige.
It is my great ambition one day (maybe when the kids have grown up) to drive the old Nurmbergring with the ghosts of the old Auto Unions and Mercedes thundering around. Looks like your had a great day at the GP circuit - keep sending the reports, I enjoy reading them.
Keep looking at the Nurnburgring thread for data, we try to plan a trip this summer, maybe together with the Dutch Lotus club, they go also but no data yet...some like it to see around importand data like Football? and Le-mans...so not on those data I'm afraid...
GTRene
By the way...for tire freaks there was a guy with the RED team who drove a tuned? Lotus Elise 111R with DUNLOPS semi slicks and told he was very happy with those very sticky tires and sticky they were! almost melted rubber when you held your hands on that warm(after the race) rubber...dont know size or type but he says cheaper and better? then yokohoma's 048? ...he gets a set(big discount) for around 400,-euro's...a set! thats cheap he says they do the job perfect.
I asked him, do they also last longer?? he did not know yet...they are still on teh car.
other people have the same experience with those Dunlops?
GTRene
there was a guy with the RED team who drove a tuned? Lotus Elise 111R with DUNLOPS semi slicks and told he was very happy with those very sticky tires and sticky they were! almost melted rubber when you held your hands on that warm(after the race) rubber...dont know size or type but he says cheaper and better? then yokohoma's 048? ...he gets a set(big discount) for around 400,-euro's...a set! thats cheap he says they do the job perfect. I asked him, do they also last longer?? he did not know yet...they are still on teh car.
other people have the same experience with those Dunlops?
GTRene
bogie said:
looks like a great day
..im not so keen on that pylon of a wing on that Exige though !!!...how big !!???
The Exige is a small car, but realy the pictures do it no justice, in real it looked perfect on that car! BIG but not TOOOOOOOOOOO big
when they drove of, looked realy a little monster-racer... GTRene
It was a great day rene, and it was nice to meet you.
I still have not decided if i should upgrade my S to a cup. But the colour White is for sure
When we were at the track there is ofcourse a natural desire to "track" your car up a bit, i felt quite sure i wanted a cup car.
On the way home and back in the city i was having second thoughts about fire extinguishers and cut off switches on the exterior.
I have to decide very soon though, my car will be built in the next few weeks.
Anyones thoughts on the matter would be welcome.
ian
I still have not decided if i should upgrade my S to a cup. But the colour White is for sure
When we were at the track there is ofcourse a natural desire to "track" your car up a bit, i felt quite sure i wanted a cup car.
On the way home and back in the city i was having second thoughts about fire extinguishers and cut off switches on the exterior.
I have to decide very soon though, my car will be built in the next few weeks.
Anyones thoughts on the matter would be welcome.
ian
Hi, just my tuppence worth. You could get the 240 Cup with the rollcage, extiguisher and cut outs deleted. For reference you can still fit the cage at a later date.
GTRene!! Still have to get first service so I cannot explore the full rev range yet but I will update you when I have. ;-)
Stuart
GTRene!! Still have to get first service so I cannot explore the full rev range yet but I will update you when I have. ;-)
Stuart
Hello Kevin, The silver Exige Cup 240 number 39(2006 type) looked nice but I like more darker colors myself...but I remembered Ian (bruh_la) asked the guy from RED Motorsport, but it was not storm titanium or quarts...but you have to ask Ian...I think its Artic Silver? it was at least silverish but Ian when he read this could answer you that quistion...
GTRene
but Ian when he read this could answer you that quistion... GTRene
_TC said:
Carbon Exige Cup Bemani 
Yup very nice, also very quik with over 300hp! there was also a special exhaust under it, with big bore pipework
GTRene
Does anyone know where i can get one of these?
Ask Martin from RED Motorsport
www.red-motorsport.de
GTRene
stuart1969 said:
Hi, just my tuppence worth. You could get the 240 Cup with the rollcage, extiguisher and cut outs deleted. For reference you can still fit the cage at a later date.
GTRene!! Still have to get first service so I cannot explore the full rev range yet but I will update you when I have. ;-)
Stuart
Hey Stuart
are you coming to whem we go to the Nurburgring this summer?? would be fun You have to make some more miles mate
because those left revs are waiting for you go stuart go... By the way, today I go for a look at a Black Exige 2006 with black wheels
hope we can make a good deal if we can I maybe will buy that car...and when I can find more money fix a SC later on it? So I be gone this afternoon...test driving a Exige proberbly
GTRene
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