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Chennai lounge was our local until we moved recently, great food but we never actually ate in there, only ever got it delivered.

I shall!

In verdun right now but not stopping, already had accommodation booked in Nancy tonight.

Stopped at the big American cemetery just up the road, quite an incredible place.

Sirmione……


Stayed there for a few days last year, lovely place.

Getting on the Eurotunnel tomorrow morning at 7:30 to start a 2 week euro trip, stopping at verdun on the way down tomorrow before an overnight stop in Nancy followed by 3 nights in the alps and then 5 nights on lake como ...

The potential to have a huge accident there is enormous, it’s a miracle so many people get away with as much as they do.

That looks rather brisk, nice to see it getting used to its full potential

Are you planning on timing it flat out? Would be interested to see what it’s 0-100-0 would be


That was far from its full potential, it gets much more of a beating on track :D

A mate of mine has got one of those ...

PS. according to the on board data I did 0 - 60 in 3.7 seconds off the line, its fucking steep so i'm now intrigued to know what it'd do on the flat.

That was the first time i've ever launched the car, i've been too scared to break something before now so i've never tried.


None too shabby ...

Locked a brake over the line, its a tricky braking zone as the front end goes light over a crest but you're trying to shed as much speed as you can as there's barely enough room to get the car slowed down - evidenced by the s13 sylvia that ploughed straight on into the gravel at the top of the hill.

PS. according to the on board data I did 0 - 60 in 3.7 seconds off the line, its fucking steep so i'm now intrigued to know what it'd do on the flat.

That was the first time i've ever launched the car, i've been too scared to break something before now so i've never tried.

speedingfine wrote: Sun Aug 23, 2026 10:26 am Good work mate, I've only ran there the one day too and my fastest time was 33.43 in the SLR... with no passenger. Of course, the tyre technology was inferior then though

Thats quick! You must have been trying much harder than me

mik wrote: Sun Aug 23, 2026 12:43 am I said - I'm not interested I'm making sh*t loads out of making Hondalises.

If only that were true!

I stumbled across food and fuel on insta a couple of weeks ago and decided to put an entry in for the hill climb they were running at shelsley walsh.

Never been up there before, or any other hill climb for that matter. I’d been meaning to get booked on one of the school days this year where they ...

I'd never heard of him either but I was howling with laughter when he went to Hozier's house to paint the portrait

Thats a shame, i'm mates with Dan Rowbottom and some of the behind the scenes stuff he's told over the years is eye opening, the pressure from sponsors and the like is immense. I hope they work it out.

Matty wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 11:38 pm These pairings seem to be the rage to be honest.

HPE and Burberry collab when, @dan ?

Who told you!?

That is lovely!

If it ever needs a new alternator don’t bring it to me, absolute knobend of a job that has to be done through a little hatch in the back seat

Matty wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2026 11:59 am I'm too poor/tight to pay for Evo these days, so hopefully the article arrives digitally as well for us paupers

Did you get to drive the Alpines? Assuming the A390/A290 - can you be trusted with what much power?

There were no Alpines, hence we had the track to ourselves

Hopefully, he said he’d got some good stuff so I’m looking forward to seeing it, he must have taken a couple of thousand pictures

The cars a credit to you 😎

Dave!


It genuinely is, have you had any orders yet? You definitely deserve to have had.


Just one thought though, is it still forum convention to declare it a load of old tosh and offer to take it off his hands to save the embarrassment of him having to drive ...

It surprised me at high speed just how stable it is, for a car with no aero and a shape that we know produces lift at speed its absolutely rock solid - I was doing 150mph into the last corner according to the telemetry yesterday.

I do think the underbody is working though, there were some great ...

John wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 9:13 am Sounds fantastic

I concur

I don't get to hear it from outside usually so its awesome to hear it blast past, it sounds incredible in the flesh.

Mik - they seemed to like it a lot

Chris - I wondered about that as I was driving home, I might bring it up with them at some point.