Whilst owning my previous Caterham I always had the feeling that I wanted a quicker one, most Seven owners seem to suffer this affliction and either upgrade their car or buy a faster one, even the last car could do 6 second 0-60's but nevertheless if I drove the car a lot in summer it seemed slow when you got used to the speed and the way it could instantly whip up some velocity, so, as I had never used the money from the last car when I sold it I put a little to it and started looking for something special to regain what I had lost when selling the K-series Seven. Quite by chance one Saturday morning I looked at the Pistonheads website a suitable Seven had appeared for sale in Winchester (not too far away compared to some i'd looked at) so I went and looked at it on the Sunday morning and bought it. It is to give it it's full title a Caterham Seven Fireblade, one of 25 officially produced under licence from Caterham by James Whiting Sevens. All 25 cars were designed with Trackday use in mind and have a modified Live Axle chassis with a De-Dion wide track front end. Under the bonnet nestles the engine from a 1998 Honda Fireblade producing between 130 and 140 horsepower, not a massive amount of power but when you consider the cars total weight is around 400 Kilo's and the bhp per tonne figure is around 325 you can understand why this car is not at all slow ! The car was EVO magazine Trackday Car of the Year in 2001 beating off some fairly stiff opposition to attain the title. There are no official performance figures for these cars but 0-60 sprint is somewhere around the 4 second mark and it's on road performance seems a little quicker than a Caterham R300. This is the first car i've driven to ever seem too fast for the road. More to follow....