So the rumour going around is that this was the biggest every gathering of lotus cars ever - dont know if thats true or not but wouldnt surprise me. it was certainly the biggest gathering in japan ever. we had 700 cars turn out and an astonishing 600 cars taking part in track events! Thats a lot of cars and made for a few exciting near misses....

I knew it was going to be a special day when i pulled onto the expressway heading fpr fuji and saw in the lane infront of me a 211 and a whole bunch of super 7s exhausts burbling and chrome shinning. you know that feeling you get driving to sepang in convoy...imagine what its like when around 1 car in 5 on the road around you is a lotus! the expressway from tokyo to fuji was like a moving lotus museum. i saw every model ever made during that ride, including 7 (i counted) formula lotus cars on trailers and a bunch of turbo esprit. at the circuit it was just a sea of lotus cars.


One of the highlights for me was getting to take an evora around the track...one of the lowlights (well disapointing moments) was getting to take a caterham r300 around.

in my class i broke my personal best laptime at fuji by just over 1 sec so i was chuffed, especially as i only span off once whereas last time there i spent more time in the dirt than i did on the track!

The website is here (sorry in japanese) but you can see the cars types that had track sessionshttp://www.lotus-cars.jp/jld/lotus_owner.html

There was a bunch of f2, f3 and fj lotus cars there also that were fun to see racing, as was the lotus 211 cup race whose sound level wasnt far off the formula cars session