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Title: Lotus CEO hands on car development
Post by: BDA on Wednesday,January 24, 2018, 06:54:47 AM

Lotus CEO, Marc Gales was recently given a speeding ticket. His defense was pretty interesting:

https://nypost.com/2018/01/23/lotus-ceos-speeding-ticket-defense-is-awesome/

Title: Re: Lotus CEO hands on car development
Post by: Bainford on Wednesday,January 24, 2018, 08:16:27 AM

Haha. Cool story. thanks for posting.

Title: Re: Lotus CEO hands on car development
Post by: 4129R on Wednesday,January 24, 2018, 10:36:52 AM

Whoops, my record speed for the A11 near there is 140mph in a Golf R32.

Honest officer I was just checking that the wheels were properly balanced, and the dynamic tester only went up to the equivalent of 100mph.

Title: Re: Lotus CEO hands on car development
Post by: buzzer on Monday,February 05, 2018, 12:52:59 PM

4129 .. so did you get stopped for that and got away with it.
Mine was 125mph on the A12 getting pulled in a cavalier Sri (shows how long ago that was). They could only average speed check then, fewww.  But the coppers were really good about it and were quite respectful.  Don’t think that would happen now.

Title: Re: Lotus CEO hands on car development
Post by: 4129R on Monday,February 05, 2018, 01:01:06 PM

Empty dual carriageway, slightly downhill.

I have yet to see any police on that section of road.

Fingers crossed.

Title: Re: Lotus CEO hands on car development
Post by: buzzer on Monday,February 05, 2018, 01:04:05 PM

 :)