"RWS Motorsport" (rwsmotorsport)
08/16/2015 at 14:19 • Filed to: Lotus
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"RWS Motorsport" (rwsmotorsport)
08/16/2015 at 14:19 • Filed to: Lotus | 6
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Lotus had their annual festival at Brands Hatch this weekend, with a nice variety of classics off track, and modern machinery racing. Oh and some demos from F1 cars...
John Player Special 2-eleven, I like.
Sort of gulf liveried Elise, I like!
Lotus have some history in Rallying, which was being demo’d on the Brands Stage with 3 Talbot Lotus running. RWD FUN!
The headline series was the european cup, with entries from France, Belgium, Holland and Italy.
Oh, and then the F1 cars came out to play:
The Lamborghini V12s may have been crap in period, but holy hell they sounded incredible.
Not on fire, just exhaust overrun.
The Red Arrows stopped by on their way to an airshow somewhere, I dunno, but it was cool to see them flying in formation just because.
Lotus also launched the new Evora special edition (name forgotten, sorry) complete with special red wheels.
Support Races:
This 935 replication is slightly special, apparently its very loosely based on a 996 911 chassis, and has been pretty much scratch built from the ground up into this beast. This thing was making GT3 cars look slow.
We must be pretty close to exhausting the supply of E30 BMW shells, with 39! of them racing this weekend. Also, BMW Art Car!
Paddock:
Fairly spartan 2-Eleven interior. Only 1 thing matters in this thing. The Road.
Glorious Elan Sprint looking just clean enough, whilst still being used.
Just because its the Lotus festival, doesnt mean other supercars weren’t welcome.
Not sure where these inflatables came from, but I like them.
Its not a race weekend without atleast 1 Ferrari there.
Bare Carbon Evora GTE.
Complete with all gold details.
1 Lotus Carlton is rare, but 6. Awesome.
Classic Astons, who can say no.
Lotus always has done its bit to counter the dull grey/silver monotony of most cars.
Lotus have had an interest in Saloon cars for years, if only they would team up with a big manufacturer again to bring us more specials
Pistonheads are EVERYWHERE!!
Limited edition Europa, built to celebrate the World Championship win in 1973
Glorious Gold Leaf Elan Sprint.
To be honest, the on track action wasnt great, with lots of races won by big gaps, and the non-lotus races being slightly less interesting. But hey, when you have a season ticket, it costs nothing and a poor day at a racetrack is still better than any day at work :D
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> RWS Motorsport
08/17/2015 at 11:43 |
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Is it weird that this is the photo that made me gasp out loud? After scrolling past the Camel liveried F1 cars even?
I do believe the Camel livery may be one of the most underrated liveries ever. It may even be better than Marlboro livery on an F1 car.
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RWS Motorsport
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
08/17/2015 at 12:39 |
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Ha well thats the first time any of my photos have had that effect so I’ll take it.
Camel livery is really great, its just so clean and simple, hard to go wrong with it really. I think the era of cars its on helps too, those late 80s, early 90s cars are beautiful in the aero simplicity,