Lotus Elan S1 '62 - Championship Series #1 - Division Z champion Cobrius!

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Note: The online dealership is now full of vintage cars! whoo-hoo.

You can now snap up a Lotus Elan with 0 miles! )

Over the past couple days, had some races with the Elan...

With Johnnypenso (green) on Deep Forest

And Cobrius (blue) on a custom track (made by warriuszero)

 

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I'm going to try & put some time in with the Elan sometime today... Feel free to join me in my lounge if I'm there!

 

[ID_racing]

I seem to have missed the practice sessions..but hey! what's new! I have time to get some more much needed practice in at Cape Ring and Rome before tonights race.
I can participate in Sundays race too.

 

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Epicentre & I had some practice races at Cape Ring Inside yesterday.
But I'm going to be under-practiced myself.
Will be hoping that by Sunday's race, I will be up to speed. (This is probably just a wild dream though. lol)

 

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I'm going to open up the lounge early for practicing, since I haven't gotten much time in practicing myself.
Welcome to join early if you so wish.

 

[ID_racing]

Great event melonpunch! thanks a lot. Nice track/car/tyre combos.

I promised Epicentre-nl that I would share my setup for the Elan. Its based on this one, from Praiano´s tunes, tweaked a bit here and there to make it fit my drivingstyle. I also found that changing parts had a big effect on the cars speed and performance. Again, its definitely worth trying out some different parts.

 

[Epicentre]

Thanks mate, will try it out tomorrow and finetune it myself as well (for as much as i actually can..)

Today was fun, I would have scored most points if it was a drifting contest...
Thanks for the tip to give the rearend a higher set-up. Went on Deep Forest from in-race 1.45 (only round under 1.50) to 1.42.5 and more laps under the 1.50.

 

[cobrius]

I'm in for todays races too, if it's still on.

 

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Lounge open for practice laps now.
Arrival time in 1/2 hour - for vision check.

 

[Epicentre]

I'm out tonight, pulled a muscle in my back and am lying down most of the time..

 

[cobrius]

To summarize this double-event:

I had my car tuned and ready on Friday and thought yeah I will be competitive. On Saturday I was really confused why I was 3 seconds slower per lap and embarassing myself in almost every corner. It turned out my settings were all gone and I got really stressed because I didn't have them written down.

Retuned it on Sunday morning and the feeling was same as Friday and could only hope to do better in the races. Now I feel totaly redeemed.

All in all a good event with great tracks and a funny little car. Thanks to all participants and Watermelon for hosting.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Sorry I missed the race yesterday, really wanted to be there, but ended up working the entire day. Definitely I'll be doing more of these lower powered car series in the future, it was fun going slow...lol.

 

[ID_racing]

Been regretting my descision to stick to division Y, ever since I took it..LOL well, I knew something was wrong with cobrius´car in the first races, I normally wouldn't lap him, or even get close.. It's more the other way around!!

Ill be looking forward to series #2!

 

[Carbonox]

If you are still racing these cars, I could maybe come along... I really like one-makes, and in addition to that, I know some of you people from earlier races

 

[dansoxfan]

Yesterdays race was a blast. I like the one make races, changes things up. Cob and I had this one race yesterday that was super fun, he ended winning by .143 seconds.

 

[ID_racing]

If you are still racing these cars, I could maybe come along... I really like one-makes, and in addition to that, I know some of you people from earlier races

Hi Carbonox..check this one out, another one of Watermelons 2 speed Vintage/new races:

 

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Good races everyone! Had lots of fun.
Thanks for coming out!

Division Y...
Bit of a thrill beating the unprepared Johnnypenso. LOL (Did not expect to.)
I really muffed it with Cobrius, who was having a rough time of it himself in Division Y. Now I know why!!
But he surely was vindicated in Division Z!!

Division Z... Rome was quite tense... I had a heck of a time keeping up with Dansoxfan.
And Cape Ring Inside - that hateful track... I had cc570 at my heels for 6 laps, & just couldn't fend him off - he passed me just before the last turn of the race!!! I could do nothing to stop it, I'd pushed to the limit already.
Deep Forest... I set my best lap ever on Deep Forest with this car, the very last lap of the race! I really burned the tires in just 12 laps there!!

Will be planning more races with this car. I think it's fun.
The crappy tires are a bit much, but then I think I might actually do better with crappy tires come to think of it. LOL

When I look at the results, and the racers I was pitted against, all in all, I think I'm pleased with my results. It was some stiff competition, with drivers I know to be faster than myself. So just being able to keep up, I'm pleased!!

I took some photomodes, of course! Just have to upload & post them when I get a chance.

 

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Division Y photos

ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green
cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue

 

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Division Z photos

cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
CC570 / CC570 / Bahama Yellow
jackargent / jackargent / dark purple

 

[dansoxfan]

Great pictures watermelon thanks for posting.

 

[ID_racing]

You really know your way around that photomode thingy, great pics, and a lot of great locations too! I tried to capture some images, but hey..we all got our limitations..lol
ps.: I really hope there will be a series #2.

 

[Epicentre]

I see me in the Division Y.. Or at least I see my smoke . Great pics of it all!

 

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As you can see, you're not alone in the smoke department, Epicentre! Usually in a race, if there's a poof of smoke behind a car, chances are good that it will be behind my car!

Very fun races though, overall.

And I do hope to plan more with this car.
But recently I have had real life commandeering all of my time. Mostly in bad ways recently. And upcoming in good ways - hopefully it will be all good ways I am kept from racing the rest of this month.
So I would predict that I will be planning more Spitifre, more Elan, more 2-speed, and hopefully other races... But likely not this month.
Keep a look out for September onwards though!