Stradale coming tomorrow!!!

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Zep said:
I have a small plate stuck directly on the bumper, covers the holes for the bracket and looks much neater to my eye. Had it on my GS and now the Strad and never had any trouble with the fuzz.
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The fine for having a plate of non standard dimensions is more than for having no plate at all for some obscure reason. Looks far better with no plate at all IMHO.
 
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My plate ‘fell off’ the front of my 458 and ended up in the boot somehow. I never had any issues with the police in the 6 months I had it- but has a few run ins with annoying Middle Aged jobsworths who made a big deal of it. Outside big cities I would have thought it’s worth the risk not having one on the front
 
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Zep said:
There aren’t any holes in the splitter on mine, the bracket just rested on it on two rubber grommets.



Don’t forget the lighter carbon front seats. Which I imagine make three parts of sod all difference! :)
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There was holes, I had them professionally filled and used the wee grommets instead, which are actually those ikea sticky feet things for under furniture!
 
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Oliver6796 said:
Cheers. Didn’t know they did driver tuition there.
Keep me posted if you book something or if these cars don’t fail noise tests on track days then book a track day and I’ll jump in to give you some free tuition if you like. I’m not too seasoned on tin tops but think I may be able to assist (obviously depends on your starting point)
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Carlimits is the company that does training there.
They are very known in the Lotus world as the original instructor, Andrew Walsh, is a race driver that did very well in the various lotus series and was once upon a time test driver for Benetton, I believe.

Anyway, I'm not sure that he still does much tuition, but he taught me in my lotus years ago. If the day has maintained the same format you'll spend the morning turning left. You will spin at about 50mph the first few times. You'll then be shown what you did wrong and how to do it right. By the end of the day you'll do the same corner at 90mph+ without spinning!

It's a day for learning car control, not necessarily a day of driving fast, although they often go hand in hand. You will realise that you're no where near as good as you think, and you'll probably drive home slower than you drove there in the morning.

I did 4 separate days there over a 2 year period, each time starting off badly and getting better by the end of the day. However, whilst you need to keep practicing, the skills you will learn will stay with you. And of course, may well save your life one day, or at least save you a bump or scratch.

Highly recommended 5 *****
 
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Dan! said:
Carlimits is the company that does training there.
They are very known in the Lotus world as the original instructor, Andrew Walsh, is a race driver that did very well in the various lotus series and was once upon a time test driver for Benetton, I believe.

Anyway, I'm not sure that he still does much tuition, but he taught me in my lotus years ago. If the day has maintained the same format you'll spend the morning turning left. You will spin at about 50mph the first few times. You'll then be shown what you did wrong and how to do it right. By the end of the day you'll do the same corner at 90mph+ without spinning!

It's a day for learning car control, not necessarily a day of driving fast, although they often go hand in hand. You will realise that you're no where near as good as you think, and you'll probably drive home slower than you drove there in the morning.

I did 4 separate days there over a 2 year period, each time starting off badly and getting better by the end of the day. However, whilst you need to keep practicing, the skills you will learn will stay with you. And of course, may well save your life one day, or at least save you a bump or scratch.

Highly recommended 5 *****
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Sounds good fun, I’d be interested in the costs as it would be nice to have a bit of space with run off to play around.
I agree totally with the drive slower home part. As the race seasons finished and winter approached I used to get more daft as the months came on. After a race weekend I’d spend most of the journey home driving like miss daisy :D
 
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Count me in - maybe we could go for a 4 person day? So the instructor will teach us how to handle our car better?
 
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Oliver6796 said:
I probably wouldn’t do it until my tyres are on the way out but let me know if any of you do as I’m there quite often (still trying to do my PPL) so would be a nice chance to catch up with some of you.
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Whilst you'll spin a few times, it's not particularly ******* tyres.
 
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Throw some dates out and see how the numbers go, if it’s 3 and really need 4 I’ll probably jump in although if 4 are in I’ll try and come down anyways. 15mins away from me, reckon I can do it in 9 in the Strad :p
 
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jasst said:
The fine for having a plate of non standard dimensions is more than for having no plate at all for some obscure reason. Looks far better with no plate at all IMHO.
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I could be wrong, but I thought the law was more about the size and font of the letters/numbers, rather than the size of the plate itself. So if you have a private plate with few characters, you can trim off the wasted plastic at each end of the plate. Possibly. It’s what I’ve done, and never had a problem (with my cars being, generally, in Dorset and Chelsea).
 
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A mate came over to see it today and taught me my first trick. You don’t need the one button, just pull the peddle. Pull both together to get to neutral, guess that’s why the R buttons wear out and not the 1.(unless someone’s going to tell me pull the down pedal twice when stationary and it goes to R) He had an FF and was saying how similar it felt.
Think I need to have a good sit down with the manual :rolleyes:
 
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outrun said:
There was holes, I had them professionally filled and used the wee grommets instead, which are actually those ikea sticky feet things for under furniture!
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Ah! That explains it. Thanks!
 
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jasst said:
The fine for having a plate of non standard dimensions is more than for having no plate at all for some obscure reason. Looks far better with no plate at all IMHO.
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I have heard this. As the plate uses the standard font but is just a bit smaller I have worked on the assumption that I am less likely to have a problem. I have been right so far, but I might be wrong in the future!
 
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Congratulations on the stradale. Drive it like you stole it and it will love you more. Wait 20 mins for the tyres to warm up first - or manhandle it's squirrelly ways..
 
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And you know about comfort drive mode too? It remembers sport mode from last being used as long as you use a paddle to change before about 30 seconds of driving.
 
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I did the four person day when I had my Elise at North Weald with Walshy.
A couple of years later did the four person day again but with the Maser, at Blyton Park.
Can remember Andy saying to me 'we'll get your Maser sideways down the main straight after lunch'
Not much sideways, more doing 180's!!
Highlight was Andy's daily driver at the time actually was a GranTourismo, so after he did a few laps driving my 4200 on the limit (wow, simply wow, quite simply, I can't drive!), he warmed up his GT and took me for a few laps in that for comparison.
Could tell that the GT was a much bigger, lardy car on track compared to even my classico. His GT however was a 4.2 auto I recall, before the Strad was available.
 
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