Update on my car related to this issue: I have been working with my dealer on this issue, and even involved Lotus USA support team. One issue they uncovered was that the left front wheel was barely in spec for caster. The Lotus engineer asked that the front control arms' bolts to be checked. The dealer technician found that the bolts in the front lower arm were incorrect parts and were too long. Once those bolts were changed, caster became a non-issue. Of course, this does not have anything to do with the car pulling to the right; however, now we could completely rule out alignment being the issue.
As this work was done, I had the track tires (Conti ECF) on the car with 4 track days on them. They did not look much used frankly. Unfortunately, the alignment being nearly perfect, the car still pulled to the right in a way that the rear axle was push it to the right, rather than the front pulling to the right. The Lotus engineer than suggested that I either swap to stock tires or rotate the ECF tires from left to right to see if the tires were causing the issue. I chose to change to the stock Goodyears since we were in December and it was getting cold already. After this change I did not get to drive the car much, only a couple of grocery runs until about last week.
Now the ice is off the roads, I took the car out and started driving. And yes, the tires were the biggest culprit. The car is tracking straight without pulling to either side. I went back and measured thread depth of the ECF tires, and the left side tires had 1.5 mm less depth compared to the rights side. This is to be expected as I had all four track days on a track that is running clockwise with only two mild corners to the left out of total ten; the left side tires get abused significantly. Not to mention that the ECF tires are directional, so I did not swap them between left to right in between track days.
I hope this is helpful to others.
