Had a great day in my little Lotus. I must admit that on the drive there I was thinking that this would be the moment of truth and had I done the right thing opting out of my cossie.

But from about the third corner on I had no regrets, the little thing is mint. Nobody overtook me all day, although there were cars that were faster in a straight line. But even though I was on road tyres and had standard suspension, nothing touched it in the corners. I was coming round the last bend onto the pit straight at over 100mph and it loved it, apart from once when it all went a bit "Pete Tong" But hey as the saying goes, if you aint spinnin every now and then, you aint trying!! My top speed down the back straight was just over 120mph, so not a million mils away from the big boys.

Had a few noise isues though, was 99db on the static test and got clocked three times at 88db on the drive by, so that was why I was crawling round the first bend past the mic, and on the back straight by the 2nd mic. So in the end noise called an end to my day, but not until after doing just over 100 track miles and all with no problems what so ever.

My next plans are to try and quieten it down a bit, as eventhough I reckon I would be OK at other tracks, Bedford is one of my favourites so I want it to be able to pass there without any issues.

I was also worried about the brakes a bit as they are a lot smaller to what I am used to. I mean adding up all of the pistons in all of the callipers on the whole car still comes to less than the number of pistons I had in one calliper on my Escort, but I had some good pads in and SRF and braided lines and the brakes were mint all day, without any hint of fade at all.

Went out with Mike in his Escort, very fast, apart from hitting a foookin cone because we thought we were being black flagged.


Big up Newts for sorting my pass, and once again a big thanks to the organisers for giving us all a great day.