super humble guy, really a breath of fresh air these days

The banana's back! Good to see you out and about once again after your track adventure. Looks great!

super nice honest guy that reflects on everything that he has done wrong and yet there are still so many bastards in the comments that are criticising him on exactly what he has already said.

Glad to see the banana back in all her glory 🏁👍🏼 looking forward to more Episodes ...

Friendly advice for Lotus car owners... Before you go at Lotus dealers for some parts, you may want to take off that part, and go see either Toyota or Opel with the part in hand. Why? For instance, when I broke my flasher's stick on my 2000 elise, they sold me one for around 200 euros. About 2 weeks later, my company sent me on a few days trip with a renting car, which was an opel astra. I immediatly found the great ressemblance of the flasher's stick with the louts one that I just changed. So I took it apart, and compared the part numbers. Turned out they were the same. And had I known this, Opel sold the same thing for 32 euros... And the same goes on with mostly all of the parts of the car, save the body. Anything mechanical will probably come from toyota, and many inside parts will come from Opel (GM in the states). For the more recent models I cannot say exactly, but in the automotive world, know that most of these parts are done by third parties manufactures and not designed nor produce by car companies. So you WILL find it for much cheaper somewhere else. With the internet, if you google the part number, you'd be surprised how easy it is to find out where to get one real cheap, sometimes even from the manufacturer itself! Of course that goes not only for Lotus.

Good to see your Elise 111S back on the road! I had mine on track a week ago, that was so much fun.

Well done for being open and honest. Hope you can overcome the crash and enjoy track days in the future, it's a lovely car

Buy a sacrificial front lip. When you scrape, it take the damage instead of the clam. It's saved mine many times.

Looks good, mate. Have fun, certainly, but drive safely. Continue having fun for years to come. 😀

well done ! thanks for uploading

good vid......and looking forward to your future track action!

Fantastic repair. Looking good :-)

Nice repairs man!

Glad to see it fixed. Enjoy it and don't be afraid to race it on the track. You live and learn.

Toffe video! Je spreekt een goed woordje Engels. Ik vind dat muziekje op de achtergrond alleen een beetje afleidend, maar misschien is dat persoonsgebonden haha

Thanks for the "Lesson learnt". It is really useful.

the "counterfit" clams are typically considered to be inferior but prefect for an elise you use mainly on track since replacing them is expensive. When i had a cracked clam on my elise i took it to a fibreglass specialists who repaired it for 200.00 and it looked good as new.

As others have said, get chin guards or a spitter for the front clam, plus some kind of paint protection film. My splitter has saved the clam many times. Glad car is fixed and that you are heading back on track. Ps, did you get track day insurance?

Best intro ever :D

Good work and good deal. Stay safe.

Good to see you back up man. Keep at er! If you have a few euro to throw around, along with the instruction (or without) a cheap beater track car like a miata is also a good learning tool. Something that's quick and reliable, but not nice enough to worry about putting into a wall. Pulling a dent with a hammer in a miata - free.

Hey your right Buddy I stand to be corrected, I have a 111R 2005 same colour as yours when you crashed it made me feel sick because it was just like looking at my car , too close for comfort yeah, a few of us are doing a road trip next May through Europe but we are not doing a track day for obvious reasons hahaha , take it easy man.

Nice one Geoff :D

2.01 the bit of metal on the right looks bent, The left is going towards the wheels but right is going in towards the exhaust

I have done some track days but used the race club cars instead of my own. The problem you have highlighted - following the Porsche and the Porsche having better performance cornering capabilities etc - but what people forget is you need to take your town tyres off and put racing tyres on and set the cars suspension for track day events - for some performance cars that just a switch selection for others it means altering the suspension settings. anyway you didn't flip the car andyou walked away only with a slight neck ache - not bad. Good luck with the future the Lotus is a wonderful car - enjoy to the max :)

Hi, I don't know if you are aware, or that somebody has already mentioned but the crash probably wasn't your fault. The Elise has a problem that can arise with the rest tow link which can cause the attaching bolt to seize and break causing exactly what you experienced. I know that there is replacement tow links that are much stronger and will prevent this from happening to you again. In Australia, Simply Sports Cars have a very good replacement unit.

thank for telling this, i will never clash my lotus.

İt is good to hear that lotus is repaired

looks good, and at a decent price. glad it's back "out of the cabbage"

In the US they use old tires at the track edge so your damage may not have been as bad.

Hi, I first stumbled on your crash video and I thought the repairs will cost you more than 10 thousand, but when I then watched this video, the price tag amazed me... Of course, if it wasn't the second hand rear bumper, the price would be much higher...

Good, it's back on the road :)

The suspension bolt that breaks to save the suspension is called a sacrificial bolt

Hij's weer heel en weer heel errug geel. Welkom terug!

Happy for you dude 👍

Glad its back and the cost of the repair its unbelievably good. Grab a spare set of tyres for the track AO48's or R888's. Them T1R's are good road tyres but really not great on track.

« Back end was ripped to shiii, Ripped to shhhhreds »

congrats on getting the banana back...try not to bruise it further.... ;-)

Holy shit, you get a nice Miata for this.

Please tell me those T1R's weren't on the car when you crashed? If they were, well...there's your reason for crashing right there. They are terrible tyres at the best of times, but on an Elise they are truly awful - comically soft sidewalls combined with budget-tyre grip levels are not fun in a mid-engine sports car. Do yourself a favour...buy a set of R888's or A048's and they will transform the car. Seriously.

Enjoy

I paid about the same and I just had paint scratches and a small 'dent'... That sounds like a sponsor price. No problem with that but we would pay more so not really a good reflection on reality.

Met de kosten van een auto als deze kun je beter een bmw 325 e36 cirquit klaar maken. Mooie lotus als daily houden.

FRP is quite easy to work on, wouldn't it been cheaper to repair the back clam instead of replacing it?

So lucky that the chassis was not injured

The Porsche won btw.

Rear clams are £1800 in the uk brand new

Alright buddy don't push it like you are in the Daytona 500. Remember there isn't a prize at the finish line it's all for fun.

I do like that coat you are wearing to be honest

want to join a few of my beglie friends at the Nurburgring one of them is a race instrutor there I have an 2x M4's we have a porsche, is200 supercharged and another uk lotus now reg'd in belgium we are all brussels based

I'm abit shocked how much it cost. Nearly €5k just to fix a few suspension components seems excessive. I'd assumed it would cost that INCLUDING the body work, especially as you can get a full respray for less than €2k, the parts cost €900 ect. Try watching samcrac and tavarish vids, you will get the idea.

the back wheel is still sketchy as h e l l

What jacket is that? It's awesome and I'd like to get myself one

I bet it was a toe link that caused your crash to begin with. There are videos of this happening to others on KZfaq. Also many stories of people almost dying on LotusTalk.com. Lotus should have recalled these but never did. If this was a major car brand it would be a major story. I’d suggest someone considering one of these cars to proceed with caution.

What's the brand and model of your leather jacket?

actually a bargain price

S on the lotus is slanted

A costly mistake but it happens

Why did you use two different yellow colors ?? Looks like painted on a scrap yard...hahaha

Gesubbed,. Gun je het beste. :)

It wasn't really "shredded" during the crash. Unnecessary exaggerating. It was damaged and cracked, not "shredded". Some of the best comments on the crash videos referred to the possibility of others getting hurt do to your mistakes so I hope you really think about those concerns and of coarse best of luck and safety to you as well.

Expensive lesson but it could be worse... your repair approach was well done. NEVER get the chinese knockoff body components... they're complete shit (lesson learned the hard way in my case).

GREAT...NOW DON'T DO IT AGAIN....................

Erg hardleers, die man.

Congratulations, I have a better car then you.... but you sir have a better jacket than me! So where does this leave us? Watch contest? Lol Oh and yea my crest ring is a rectangle like a real man! Ovals are for women!