Convertible Evora

[flyingscot68]

They're getting faster and faster.
Soon you'll have done a lap before you've started


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[Dominic]

So the 410 is a full 10 seconds a lap quicker around Hethel than the Evora S. That's pretty impressive in my book on a 2.2 mile long track. Effectively laping an Evora S after just 9 laps.

Also makes it 1.8 seconds faster than the Exige Sport 350.

Have to laugh at all the X secs quicker round Hethel chat....

I assume that is 10s quicker than Evora S and not the Evora 400?

Why? Doesn't the laptime for a car clearly aimed at those wanting to hit the track not matter?

Correct as originally stated, 3 seconds quicker than the 400. At the end of the day they are only metrics of performance but gives an idea of the performance improvement. Yes on stickier tyres, but then no one seems to pick up Porsche when they do the same with GT3, GT3 RS or GT4 Cayman.

Folks give Lotus too much of a hard time. From where I stand they are trying their best with what they've got at the moment so that's enough for me to support them.

Was not having a go, they are quite right to use the lap times as a marketing device, especially as you mention given the nature of the cars. It just feels like every other week there is a new model which is X secs quicker than the previous... surely there comes a point when you can't get any faster?.... or is that the old cars took 2 hours to do a lap

[graeme]

The law of diminishing returns only applies to engineers, not marketing departments.

[Scotty C]

Mr Robertson. Just out of curiousity, could you give us a list of all the Hethel lap times for the various cars since the S1???

Or even just the lap time of the S1??? We must be a good 30 seconds quicker by now, which is some going

er....i've got some other things to worry about! during a free nanosecond i will ask, yes

When i lapped to old track in my 211 i had to avoid all the potholes. its a new track remember. If you take away the trackday bollards its very much a power track but i very much doubt those times but i would like to be proven wrong.