LOTUS RACING AT SOCAL SPEEDWAY

Four differrent camera angles - onboard a racing Lotus Exige - cover one full lap of the California Speedway in Fontana. Dramatic power slides seen from outside and from the drivers p.o.v. Informative and fun!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Circuit
• Racing
• California
• Speedway
• Lotus
• Sportscar
• Racingcar
• Speed
• Crash
• Extremesport
• Drifting
• Burnout

[CARPIXTV]

Hey 4Dcardriver - The camera was mounted on a Lotus Exige.

[CARPIXTV]

This how we remember the difference:-

Understeer - Car goes through the hedge forward.

Oversteer - car goes through the hedge backwards.

[jeffgooloolie]

@edshift I have this exact car. It came with open diff, and i installed a LSD. I can tell you from experience that LSD does not increase understeer.

[helopeaplee]

i have a loutus exige at home lol

[ukeuro23]

I wasn't trying to explain anything or suggesting I knew anything, just thought the post was negative...it's a great car and I am a Lotus fan. Sorry I am not intelligent enough for you and that you feel the need to posta reply.

[wd1000]

@ukeuro23

oh dear. you know less than the 2 posters that are correctly trying to explain what's happening. Yes LSD is not needed on moderate speed tracks. And yes only the inner tire is smoking, not the outer one which, being more heavily loaded would smoke worse in an oversteer condition. I know because I drive this car. And "top test driver"? Or magazine writer? There's a huuuuuge difference.

[chaunster]

it does have a limited slip. The back end kicked out entirely. It is a drift.

[abejeffries]

you're a retard. Get off the couch with your need for speed games and get behind the wheel of a real car.

[IallertU]

Ahahahaha... what about the steering wheels?? It seems they are turned in the opposite direction....

[edshift]

From a respected UK Lotus Tuner:

The Elise was always designed from the outset to work without an LSD. We have recently started to offer an LSD as an option on the Toyota engined cars, primarily in response to market demand from the Autocross enthusists in the USA, who need one to be competitive when accelerating away at full throttle from very slow, tight corners in first or second gear.

[edshift]

In this type of competition they do not tend to run high speed (100mph +) corners and therefore the increase in understeer on this type of corner which you get with an LSD is of little negative consequence to them and they therefore are better off with an LSD.

In our experience an Elise or Exige equipped with an LSD is at a disadvantage to one without an LSD on a typical European race track. On top of that the LSD bluntens the steering feel and repsonse of the car which we don't like.

[ukeuro23]

oh dear...u know more than one of the top test drivers...