Just opening the engine cover makes me think about exploding K’s
Although I have to say my '69 GT Junior 105 always and still does make me stand and shout when I see one like it out and about.
I love looking at the Exige and the Alfa in particular, but the S1 is the supercar
Thank you Hethel & Exiges.com
(It’s been a long bloody last 4 years and the article reminds me of how I fell in love with the Exige the moment I passed it in the Lotus dealer window in Sydney way back in 2001).
Yes, the driver’s probably not Michael Shumacher, but I’m lapping within a second around Taupo compared to what good race drivers can do in a F458 Italia, so the Exige is no slouch!
I think it served to illustrate that you are prepared to lean more on your cars capabilities than the Fezza drivers.
I’ve been on circuit with 458 Challenge cars and they are in a different league to my SC Honda. Ok they are full on race cars on slicks with proper drivers but my expectation would be that any well driven 458 should probably show me a clean set of heels on any circuit where it could stretch its legs.
You need to be Randy in his racecar with 400bhp to take the fight to those boys, as he proved last weekend at Brands.
Such a vast spectrum of talent at trackdays. I lapped a modded GTR at Bedford SW last year,…in the wet!!!
I’m obviously not challenging that our cars are supercars but you get what I mean…
A 458 Italia though, a Taupo specialist racer managed to punt around in 1:40.8 and my current best lap is 1:42.7 in less than ideal conditions… so not exactly a world away. My car is also still firmly a road car that can dance on track, not a street legal race car.
Yes, there’s no making up for a deficit of power, but the right setup and the right driver and these little things can punch above their weight.
