North Weald Car Limits training day

Dan!

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Don't they say one of the best ways to learn to drive a car fast is to drive a go-kart in the wet on slicks?

As normal driving rules go out of the window and you have to adjust how you drive because you have no grip unless you are going in a straight line.

Or drive a Lotus, much the same! Carlimits original instructor and founder is/was a Lotus champion driver and saw a gap in the market with all the Lotus drivers claiming to have hit a patch of diesel every time it rained.
 

Felonious Crud

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Or drive a Lotus, much the same! Carlimits original instructor and founder is/was a Lotus champion driver and saw a gap in the market with all the Lotus drivers claiming to have hit a patch of diesel every time it rained.

I actually think it would be more entertaining in a Lotus, or something else lighter and lower and more readily repairable than a Maserati or an Aston. I did think at the time how hateful my old GTS would have been - the brakes would have packed up after the first few 'learning how to brake' sessions, and I dread to think what close-on 2-tons of spinning Italian metal would have done to the tyres. Fine when you don't drive like a chump, but when you're abusing the car through lack of experience there's an ar5e-twitch twinge of fear associated with it.
 

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Or drive a Lotus, much the same! Carlimits original instructor and founder is/was a Lotus champion driver and saw a gap in the market with all the Lotus drivers claiming to have hit a patch of diesel every time it rained.

If I can find one I’d fit in I would!

Actually that’s a lie. I fit in an Evora. Lovely cars.
I got into an Exige but took 20 minutes getting out.
Maybe I should try and Elise and keep the roof off!