An excellent vlog. Just one omission. It was subsequently learned that when Lando hit the back of Oscars car at the Canadian GP, Oscars car had slowed suddenly. Not by a lot but by enough to result in Lando crashing into Oscar's car as Lando pulled left to attempt a pass. Why did Oscar's car slow? He had depleted the battery staving off Lando down the previous straight where Lando had the DRS to help him get alongside before he had to brake entering the chicane. It ran out or energy just as Lando was about to attempt the pass. Andrea Stella reported this information the day following the GP but very few in the media picked up on it. All credit to Lando for accepting the blame but I have to believe that Oscar felt his car slow when the battery died. The electric motor adds around 150 bhp to the ICE engine. He must have known, and presumably thought he'd got away with it when Lando took the blame. It was his fault as he'd hit Oscar's car, but he wasn't stupid. He ...
THE LISTER MOTOR COMPANY MAKES THUNDER WITH THE LAUNCH OF IT'S NEW 200+ MPH SUPERCAR All-British specialist sports car maker The Lister Motor Company to reveal its first new model for the 21st Century at the 2018 Historic Motorsport International at ExCel, London, on Thursday 15th February Dubbed Thunder, as a logical successor to the cult Lister Le Mans of 25 years ago, this new Lister will be the most rapid, powerful and luxurious Lister ever made in the Company’s 65 years Just 99 examples of the bespoke Thunder will be built, priced from £139,950 The Thunder supercar will join Lister’s existing sports car programme, which includes the first ever fully road compliant version of its landmark Knobbly, built to the model’s original 1950s specification Other recent significant ’new’ Lister sports car continuation models include the magnesium-bodied Knobbly Stirling Moss Edition, plus the aerodynamic Costin, which will also be making its ExCel debut at the Historic Mo...