Some new pics.. Lotus in the Alps

[rob_e1]

Some great driving roads in France.. had a real blast in the lotus prior to Le Mans.

Early morning, Route Napoleon. A couple of minutes later we met up with a Swiss 360 spider and had a great run together:


Route Napoleon is lots of stuff like this, twisty but fast, armco and a big drop:


This is later on, driving up into the alps from Mento (Col De Castillion):


This is Col de Turini, where the monte carlo rally is held:


At the top of Col de Turini:


Highest point we went to was Col de la Cayolle which is 2325m. The white stuff is snow btw


Faster drive after we left the highest peaks thu what is skiing country in the winter time:


There are a whole load more but these give you a flavour. Oh, and Le Mans was great too

2368 miles in total and the esprit ran faultlessly the whole trip.

Planning next years trip now... thinking maybe Futa Pass (opening sequence of the Italian Job) or maybe St Bernadina Pass or Stelvio and into Italy..

Hope you like the pics. Cheers
Rob

[rob_e1]

Oh, and one more for the ferrari fans..

This is the car park of the Formule 1 hotel Le Mans nord on friday night (ie day before the race starts). For those of you who don't know, the Fomule 1 hotel is 26 euros a night (about $30us) so super-cheap. In the car park we had: My esprit, two 550 maranellos, 355 spider, 360m, about 10 porsches, four TVR's, Ultima, classic Jag e-type and THREE F40's!

[rob_e1]

Yes, you are correct - f1 hotels have shared toilets and showers . I think its just something about the british sense of humour.. 8)

[cooperluke]

Just a thing.... why are the F40s parked on the places for handicaps??

Duuuh

[Ghostbat]

3 F40:s in handicap parkingspaces..

[schnell318]

That must have been one nice trip man. Beatiful twisty roads and a Lotus ...hope I can do something like that one day.

That car park is just crazy in such a cheap hotel!

Cheers

[1zippo1]

This is the kinda trip I dream about... man do I wish I was going to do that this summer.

I'll have fun, for sure. But damn I would like to travel with a Lotus Esprit instead of a Yaris

[TT]

Very nice pics! And the F40 at the F1 hotel are crazy

but they are idiots too... check out wich places they used, assholes

[nejcdolinsek]

Is it just me, or do I see some plastic sheets on the front of the F40s?

Gerat pics

[TT]

Just to protect it from high speed highway traveling I bet

[schnell318]

The F40 in the middle seems to have Lexan windows, I didn´t know you could have normal or those like in the 360CS.

[rob_e1]

TT - Yep, they had some temporary plastic stone chip protection film on them.

schnell318 - i believe the early cars had sliding windows. The later cars had the 'normal' manual windup windows.

[BADMIHAI]

WOW! Stunning views there. And three F40s in the same place is crazy. I have yet to see my first F40. :roll:

[he7lius]

Very nice photos and i think the Lotus is still one of the best looking supercars ever made.

Its the shape i used to draw my dream supercar.

[astonmartinandy]

Great photos - do you have any higher resolution? Are the roads really as good as they look ??