Indeed Andy, my MkIV is totally road set-up, and does not sport antiroll bars. I have a pair lying in my garage, acquired from Redline some time back. Just need to fit them and maybe change the springs. Some job for the next winter if I find time between looking after the true horsepower[
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On the Wednesday after Castle Combe, I drove down to Monza in the MkIV, over the Gotthard pass where it started to rain and did not stop until I reached destination. So got a bit wet[
]. On Thursday I had a wonderful track day with 4 x 25 minutes + 1 x full hour on the F1 track. Mystical, I tell you. We were about 20 cars together on the track, no restrictions, just a minor shunt in the first chicane between a Lotus Super 7 and a Porsche. Most cars were fast Lotuses (Exige and Elise SC)of members of my French Lotus Club (
www.club-lotus.fr).
The MkIV turned round after round without any problems. Of course I did keep a safety margin as I still needed to drive home the next day. When we had our first session in the morning at 9:30, the track was still wet from rain, but soon it dried out and cars got faster.
I was very pleased both at Castle Combe and Monza with the behavior of the Michelin Pilot Sports (on the original 16" rims).
When the track day was finished at 5 pm, I drove back to Switzerland to find the Gotthard tunnel closed by the time I hit it, so had to take the mountain again, in the dark. Encountered snow and freezing roads at the very top (2200 m) and decided to stay overnight in the nexte village. It's not real fun to drive a mountain pass down in the dark. Next day the sun was out again so I decided to climb another 2 passes (Furka 2436 m and Grimsel 2165 m) before heading north. And did a few more hill climbs in the French Vosges on the way home.
The MkIV is such a fine car for travelling (ligth this time, no copilot).
Tomorrow morning I hit the road again in the truck with boxed trailer and the Lotus Eleven packed for 700 kms down to central France and a day with the CLF on Mas du Clos track on Sunday.
(
www.masduclos.fr). 40 cars enrolled, all Lotuses.
I'll post a few pics from Monza later.
cheers
Constant