Knockhill footage- Some Lotus content.

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:52 pm

Gav posted this on TRS, its footage from back when he had a CTR.

Some Lotus content and a S2000 spinning into the tyre wall at Duffus, if I remember correctly he annoyed a fair few Elise owners that night.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doc ... 9281927214

Post by ed » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:00 pm

re the s2000 what a twonk, gets more than 1 black flag and tw@ts up duffus and hits the barrier!

Gav · Post by **Gav** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:00 pm

Doh, you beat me to it Kenny

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:05 pm

oops sorry Gav

Post by ed » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:09 pm

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:22 pm

Honda wrecked?

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:22 pm

Front end rebuild job I think.

Gav · Post by **Gav** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:33 pm

Gareth wrote:Honda wrecked?

Think it ended up mounting the tyre wall, it wasnt written off but would have been a hefty repair bill.

mac · Post by **mac** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:22 pm

That's the guy that almost wiped kevin (kayfur) and myself out. wouldn't ley us past and the brake tested me along the back straight, with kevin feet from the rear of my car.

Mac

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:05 am

Unusual crash - it didn't seem to me as though he was going that fast - does anyone actually know what happened?

Anyway, I liked the manouevre up the back straight

Poor bloke - S2000 - they always end up in the armco at the 'ring and KH it would seem ...

Cheers,
Robin

Gav · Post by **Gav** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:24 am

When I realised he wasnt going to let me passed up the straight I backed off and gave him some room, not really sure what he did after that. He didnt even put any opposite lock on when he lost the back end either

Another S2000 went off at Spa a couple of weeks ago too

mac · Post by **mac** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:41 am

As I recall the driver was the asian lad (Chinese/Japanese) who turned up with a voucher for money off an experience day expecting to use it at a HM event.

He was rather loud and brash in the queue and waited until he got halfway up the stairs before asking about insurance, think it was something like "Yeah and Knockhill insure the cars don't they"

I've been to a few track days now and most if not all drivers get a positive reaction, even from complete strangers, when they take their car off "hope he's Ok, I can lend you a trailer to move the car, doesn't seem that bad etc etc etc" On this occasion someone stopped me and asked what had happened, and when I said that the S2000 had hit the barriers the guy replied "hope he didn't take anyone out with him" and "at least the tracks safe now"

You can just about make out the back of Kevin's caterham heading into the pit lane on the previous lap, I was already at the pit marshals post making my complaint which is why he got the black flag.

Mac

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:21 pm

S2000

Says it all really.....

Has anyone put and S2000 engine in an Elise???

Post by **Shug** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:30 pm

Andy G wrote:S2000

Says it all really.....

Has anyone put and S2000 engine in an Elise???

Gearbox would be a nightmare. Install in the S2000 is longditudinal, but transverse in the Elise.

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:36 pm

Andy G wrote:S2000

Says it all really.....

Has anyone put and S2000 engine in an Elise???

What does it say?

AFAIK, you can't mount the engine in an Elise because it's longitudinally mounted. Shame though cos it's a peach.