LOT Race Series - Esprit admitted?

Esprit may be admitted to LOT's new lowcost race series. This would be a great focus for the esprit and opens up sponsorship options. Depends on regs, getting Esprit readt and costs.


"The old gal would be more than welcome I'm sure...

We should have a lot more information up on the forums by the end of
next week.

We've been doing a lot of research into what members would like to see
and also how to get cars prepped sensibly. A team of existing elise
racers, ex-seloc bmw racers and a large number of members who have yet
to sit on a grid are putting things together.

At the moment we expect people to be able to get all the kit required to
race an Elise for about £1200-£1300 - most of which can be fitted by the
majority of members but for people like me who have no idea mechanically
garages should be able to offer an all in package of turn up and drive
the car out a day later for £2000 max. Some of that equipment will be
worthwhile having just for track days anyway - such as fire
extinguisher.

Plumbed in fire ext, roll bar, transponder, electric cut offs - people
may need harness if don't already have and there will be small things
such as rear towing eye.

We know we will only attract enough people to build a decent grid if we
can keep the series as safe as possible so one of the things that has
come over is people knowing who they are on the grid with and having
done t/days with them so all look after each other. We also have to find
ways of making even a std elise at least competitive against a 300 bhp
monster and have ideas being discussed at the moment. It's also got to
stay within tight budgets.

For circuits we expect to have 6 meets in 2007 with Brands, Snetterton,
Cadwell, Oulton, Silverstone plus one other obvious choices - we have
meetings next week which should be able to confirm some of these and
have already been offered a couple of meets at Brands this year - one we
may use as a dummy run.

More info in a week or so's time but I'll add you to the interested
list.

Hope this helps."

Regards
Paul Golding