“Don’t waste any more time checking the car; if you want to disqualify something, disqualify the bloody driver because he’s too fast.“ - Lotus designer Gérard Ducarouge on Ayrton Senna
“There are a few locations in the UK that hold a certain status, something akin to hallowed ground. This location is one such place, partly because it is unique to the British Isles and partly because of the lengths you had to go to, to see it. Somewhere in the South of the UK is an estate that dates back to Victorian times, it features several large lakes situated at different levels with cascades that feed down into the next lake. These lakes were dug out over several years by over a hundred workers, before being flooded with water. Before the lower and largest lake was flooded, the owner and creator of the estate had a cast iron and concrete structure built on the lake bed, with a glazed dome and two access tunnels. One tunnel led to a spiral staircase on the lake edge and at the other end a staircase climbs to emerge onto a man made concrete and stone island in the middle of the lake. The dome is affectionately known as The Underwater Ballroom, but was actually never used for dancing. Instead acquaintances and business associates of the owner were taken down into this subterranean wonderland to play billiards beneath the coy carp swimming lazily above their heads”
