Ralph Hosier is a professional chartered automotive engineer, many of your will be familiar with his writing from the likes of Evo and Octane magazines, Ralph has very kindly written an article for those of you who are thinking about getting out on track. Exhilaration seeps from the track, the sounds, the smells and the [...]
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track-club win the 2012 Lotus Cup UK Supersport Championship
Steve Train running a track-club motorsport prepared and run Lotus 2-Eleven took the Overall Lotus Cup UK Championship with a stunning drive at Snetterton overcoming being pushed off the track and into the wall by another driver. At one point Steve was last on the road after being pushed off but a determined (and perhaps [...]
August 2012 – ATL Dry Break Refuelling for Lotus
track-group release new ATL Dry break refuelling systems for Lotus Elise, Exige and Lotus 2-Eleven. In conjunction with Aero Tec Laboratories Ltd (ATL) track-group have developed a bespoke ‘plug & play’ system that is an easy fit for the popular Lotus track day and race cars. ATL’s record speaks for itself being a supplier of [...]
July 2012 – First Aston Martin GT4 win for track-club at Brands Hatch
Bolaji Odunsi took a great if unexpected victory in the track-club run Aston martin Vantage GT4 at a very wet Brands Hatch GP Circuit. A great qualifying performance in the dry put Bolaji P3 on the grid and looking forward to the 60 minute race the following day. By the time the race came around [...]
Donington Park – Savage Maintains Lead in Lotus Cup UK Championship
Ken Savage drove an excellent race at Donington holding off spirited opposition from a number of drivers and capitalising on a smooth well timed pit stop to maintain his lead in the UK based series for Lotus cars. Steve Quicks Toyota powered S2 was always likely to have the advantage on the fast flowing Donington [...]
track-club driver wins Lotus Cup UK at Brands Hatch
track-club race team member Ken Savage extended his lead in the Lotus Cup UK Championship with a dominant victory in the Brands Hatch GP event in July. After a disappointing end to the Lotus Elise Trophy race where he was “punted” out of the lead with a few laps to go Ken drover superbly in [...]
Victory in Brands Hatch 1000km race
1988 was the last time a 1000km race was held at Brands Hatch, a race won by Martin Brundle and Andy Wallace in a Jaguar XJR-9. This race perhaps wasn’t quite the glorious Group C level but Paul Golding’s brave decision to resurrect a 1000km race for the Lotus Elise Trophy and Lotus Cup Europe [...]
New Elise R race car and Audi RS4 for track-club
Despite the busy track day and race season track-club haven’t been letting things slip with regards to fleet development. Planned additions for 2011 are a new race prepared Elise R and a DTM lookalike Audi RS4. track-club Managing Director Stephen Docherty commented that with more and more drivers looking to make the transition from track [...]
Podiums & Damage at Brands Hatch
An eventful race weekend at the Elise Trophy race supporting the Brands Hatch World Touring Car Event over three days at Brands Hatch! Plenty of track time was available to the Lotus drivers with two free practice sessions, a full 30 minutes qualifying and then two races. The weekend saw Ken Savage out racing after [...]
Race win for track-club at Snetterton Lotus Festival
track-club run Elise Trophy driver Marcus Jewell made it three victories in the 2010 series with a win in the first race of the well supported Lotus Festival event at Snetterton. Following up the double victory at Silverstone Jewell drove a superb lights to flag race after a front row lockout for track-club with Rob [...]
