Castle Combe Chronicle: The Lister Storm Sorrow at 29 Kilometres an Hour

October 06, 2026 04:04pm

Lotus FD Team breaks down the agony of finishing second at Castle Combe behind Juliano Flores' Lister Storm.

CASTLE COMBE GAZETTE: LISTER STORM CONQUERS WET GRASS AND BROKEN DREAMS

Lotus FD Team arrived in the English countryside expecting aerodynamic harmony, but instead found twenty laps of pure existential dread inside a Lister Storm that fought every single apex like it owed money to the crown. While Juliano Flores sailed off toward victory, our brave #01 machine wrestled with physics, gravity, and an inexplicable urge to visit every single patch of Wiltshire mud available.

Fernando Horta (Driver): Look, twenty laps of Castle Combe in a Lister Storm is not a racing stint, it is a hostage situation with a V12 soundtrack. The car was turning left when I wanted it to go straight, and right when I wanted to exist. I pushed that heavy beast until my arms turned to jelly, setting a respectable 0:53.015 just to prove we weren't entirely stationary, but Juliano was simply in a league of his own. We fought for every metre of tarmac, yet here we are, collecting second place like it is a precious antique.

Radaxian People (Crew): Beep beep

Radaxian People (Telemetry): Beep beep beep

Lotus FD Team Radio — Lap 14:
Horta (#01): Guys, the rear tyres are speaking a strange language and I think they want to secede.
Radaxian Crew: Beep beep
Horta (#01): What do you mean 'turn it off and on again'? We are doing 200 down the straight!
Radaxian Crew: Beep beep

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