Elise in Australian GT

General Meets + Track Day Reports
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For those who are interested I’ll try to keep this thread updated as the season progresses.

Peter Lucas is running a S/C HondaElise powered Motorspsort Elise in the Australian GT Championship.

After the first round at Eastern Creek Peter was placed 9th in the championship. A great result.

The second round was last weekend at the old Adelaide GP circuit. This was Peter’s first time at this track, it is surrounded by concrete walls and the ambient air temp was 40C. Intake air temp was over 50C.

Over the weekend as Peter learned the track he got quicker and quicker.

Qualifying 12th
Race 1 9th
Race 2 7th
Race 3 7th (only 1.5sec behind 6th with a time faster than all the GT3 Cup Porsches. This time would have placed him in 5th at Qualifying)

The car ran hard all weekend unlike many other who suffered in the heat.

As a result of his consistency and strong finishing Peter is now 5th outright in the Championship behind some seriously powerful machinery and professional drivers.

This is only Peter’s first full year in the GT Champ and he is learning fast.

The little Lotus was the crowd favourite and is attracting a lot of attention for it’s giant killing ability.

Next round is at Bathurst over Easter. Looking forward to it.

For the record Peter has another Motorsport Elise with a Rover engine in it which was being driven by his mate. It retired from practice with a large whole in the block.



http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/results_outright.php

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[image]http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/gallery/24/807.jpg[/image]

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and coverage from Round 1 here

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-584715040581446011

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[image]http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/gallery/25/848.jpg[/image]

[image]http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/gallery/25/898.jpg[/image]

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Thanks Dave - that’s a stunning looking Exige

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Not an Exige mate. Elise Motorsport. You know I’m a stickler for facts

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You know I’m a stickler for facts

How much does it weigh then?

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Too heavy.

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Also, any chance you can get the spelling right in the subject title? Where would you lot be without us Pommies in charge?

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Too early in the morning here…not enough beer yet.

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and coverage from Round 1 here

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-584715040581446011 >

Really enjoyed that video, cheers Dave .

David

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Great results.

Looking down the list there’s a few Elises in there - what happened to Angelo Lazaris in the Lotus Exige GT3? Isn’t that the ex-Cadena car from last year?

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Yes, Angelo has the Cadena car. You will have to ask Angelo what the problem is. The other Elises/Exiges are running Rover engines.

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Sorry I haven’t updated this for a while. 4 rounds done and Peter is sitting in 5th place.

Outright Standings, 2007
Car # Driver Model State Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total
4 Allan Simonsen Ferrari 360 GT VIC 117 108 84 85 394
54 Bryce Washington Porsche GT3 Cup Car SA 88 68 117 117 390
38 David Wall Porsche GT3 RSR NSW 64 105 96 92 357
19 Damien Flack Porsche GT3 Cup Car QLD 61 38 63 40 202
99 Peter Lucas Lotus Elise NSW 51 55 40.5 49 195.5
10 Gary Dann Porsche GT3 Cup Car SA 0 69 51 53 173
18 Max Twigg Porsche GT3 Cup Car VIC 42 0 58.5 63 163.5
90 Sven Burchartz Porsche GT3 VIC 9 21 66 67 163
88 John Teulan Ferrari 430 QLD 48 78 0 27 153
32 Blake Lynn Porsche GT3 NSW 52 12 40.5 42 146.5
23 Paul Tresidder Porsche GT3 Cup Car NSW 34 51 25.5 33 143.5
36 Peter Fountas Porsche GT3 Cup Car VIC 34 28 30 32 124
12 Mark Eddy Ferrari 360 VIC 0 67 0 53 120
51 Ross Lilley Porsche GT3 Cup Car VIC 29 29 48 0 106
44 Bill Pye Porsche GT3 Cup Car nsw 69 0 28.5 0 97.5
31 Jon Trende Porsche GT3 Cup Car VIC 41 23 0 33 97
45 Paul Bolinowsky Porsche GT3 NSW 45 0 45 0 90
91 Graeme Cook Porsche GT3 Cup Car SA 0 30 34.5 0 64.5
33 Fraser Kirchner Porsche GT3 Cup Car VIC 0 27 27 0 54
5 Peter Hackett Lamborghini Diablo VIC 53 0 0 0 53
40 Russell Kempnich Porsche GT3 QLD 33 0 0 20 53
46 Anthony Skinner Porsche GT3 NSW 17 0 34.5 0 51.5
29 Maher Algadrie Ferrari 430 VIC 0 44 0 0 44
74 Keith Wong Porsche 964 SA 0 39 0 0 39
27 Grant Sherrin Porsche GT3 Cup Car QLD 0 0 0 37 37
8 Simon Middleton Porsche GT2 VIC 0 34 0 0 34
21 Iain Sherrin Porsche GT3 Cup Car QLD 0 0 0 33 33
98 Angelo Lazaris Lotus Exige GT3 NSW 0 0 0 28 28
43 Hector Lester Ferrari 430 VIC 0 26 0 0 26
78 Justin Levis Lotus Elise NSW 26 0 0 0 26
9 Marc Cini Porsche GT3 Cup Car VIC 0 19 0 0 19
17 Andrew Taplin Porsche GT3 VIC 0 18 0 0 18
43 David Stevens Ferrari 430 NSW 15 0 0 0 15

Peter qualified 5th at the last round which really is an amazing feat.

http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?27/05/2007.QR1.Q7

The car has a new livery too.
[image]http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/gallery/31/1078.jpg[/image]

Angelo also debuted his GT3.

[image]http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/gallery/31/1044.jpg[/image]

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Dave, would you know if any coverage of the other rounds is floating about the internet, I had I little look on Googlevideo/YouTube but couldn�t seem to find much…

David

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I’ll try and record the next replay and stick it on here.

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Peter qualified 5th at the last round which really is an amazing feat.

Amen to that!

Ian

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and just so you don’t think this is some backwater sportscar race.

[image]http://www.speedshots.com.au/gallery/53085-1/IMG_8258.jpg[/image] [image]http://www.speedshots.com.au/gallery/53079-1/IMG_8253.jpg[/image] [image]http://www.speedshots.com.au/gallery/53103-1/IMG_8313.jpg[/image] [image]http://www.speedshots.com.au/gallery/53135-1/IMG_8428.jpg[/image]

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and just so you don’t think this is some backwater sportscar race.

Flipping heck!

The Lord really was on his side!

Ian