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I am in the midst of selling my silver coloured sports car and in the process of clearing out my stuff found the club t-shirt given to me by Ian at some track day or other, unopened and unloved; well no longer! I am wearing it right now and it is lovely next to the skin, lovely item; thank you club shopkeeper/picker of product.

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.............and you still haven't let me drive that Silver Sports Car Ranjan :(
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GreySilver Beast wrote:.............and you still haven't let me drive that Silver Sports Car Ranjan :(
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I get to drive one of Ranjan's Silver cars, with a big V6 (actually an ex-Ranjan car but who's counting ;) )
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GreySilver Beast wrote:
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.............and you still haven't let me drive that Silver Sports Car Ranjan :(
Nigel,

That is one car that I fear would be a bit problematic for ingress and egress :(
Leave it with me I have one that will be fast and easy to use for you.

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tangent Ranjan, but my friend has just bought an S2 exige and I spy one in your profile picture. How long have you had it and how are you finding it? I've yet to drive my friend's but it's certainly a nice thing to behold
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Dr. FrankenRex wrote:
Thu May 27, 2021 10:02 pm
tangent Ranjan, but my friend has just bought an S2 exige and I spy one in your profile picture. How long have you had it and how are you finding it? I've yet to drive my friend's but it's certainly a nice thing to behold
Ooo, I love tangents but the mods on here seems to frown on such deviations :finger:

Dan, that pic is from 2015 and was my last track day with it before I sold it.

I have said this here before and will say it until I die, but the Lotus Exige is the natural progression for the RX8 owner. Everything we all love about the RX8 is there in the Exige but turned up to ELEVEN :crazy: . Then when you have become used to it on track (doesn’t take long coming from a RX8), supercharge it, and I promise you that you will meet nothing on track that it cannot keep up with.

If you want a comparison; around Silverstone National my fastest time in a LaFerrari (950bhp and the quickest road car I have ever owned) was 57.37secs; in the Exige S2 supercharged (275 bhp) it was 1.06.07.

Then once you want to upgrade from the Exige get a Ferrari 458 Speciale.

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Ranjan wrote:
Fri May 28, 2021 11:08 am
Dr. FrankenRex wrote:
Thu May 27, 2021 10:02 pm
tangent Ranjan, but my friend has just bought an S2 exige and I spy one in your profile picture. How long have you had it and how are you finding it? I've yet to drive my friend's but it's certainly a nice thing to behold
Ooo, I love tangents but the mods on here seems to frown on such deviations :finger:

Dan, that pic is from 2015 and was my last track day with it before I sold it.

I have said this here before and will say it until I die, but the Lotus Exige is the natural progression for the RX8 owner. Everything we all love about the RX8 is there in the Exige but turned up to ELEVEN :crazy: . Then when you have become used to it on track (doesn’t take long coming from a RX8), supercharge it, and I promise you that you will meet nothing on track that it cannot keep up with.

If you want a comparison; around Silverstone National my fastest time in a LaFerrari (950bhp and the quickest road car I have ever owned) was 57.37secs; in the Exige S2 supercharged (275 bhp) it was 1.06.07.

Then once you want to upgrade from the Exige get a Ferrari 458 Speciale.

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If only I had the money to make the progression! :lol:

Thanks for replying, though, appreciate it. My friend's exige is supercharged, but it's running a bit lower at about 240bhp I think - even so it's light and sounds glorious. Hoping he'll let me have a go in the damn thing soon!

Very interesting on the lap times, though. It's exactly the same principle as the good old racing Minis back in the 60s/70s.

That said, wouldn't mind seeing a LaFerrari thundering around Silverstone...!
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If you want to see a LaFerrari shooting around Silverstone rock up to any GoldTrack track day, there is usually one or two going round. The guy I sold mine to goes regularly-ish. You might even catch me at one.

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Another thank you to Ian as today was the first day trying on the 55th Anniversary hoodie during my morning walk along the beach; the weather was cold and wet but the hoodie was lovely and warm :)
Thanks Ian.

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