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Having raced the Esprit in GT2 and GT3 classes, Lotus began to develop a new version of the car to race in GT1. Development of the car was entrusted to the newly formed Lotus GT1 Engineering group, which included many staff from the recently dissolved Team Lotus. The newly developed racing car utilised the type 114 steel tubular chassis paired ...
The Lotus Esprit is a sports car built by Lotus Cars from 1976 to 2004 at their Hethel, England factory. It has a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout . Together with the Lotus Elise / Exige , it is one of Lotus' most long-lived models.
Initially it was an aluminium engine block, which proved to be problematic, The last 2 races at Sebring and Laguna Seca,they decided to change to a Nascar cast-iron block with 2 valves which resulted in bigger restrictors sizes of 2 x 36.8 mm. for the Elise GT1 Race car. Seven Elise GT1 racing chassis were built, by G.T.I. racing; and financed ...
Lotus was one of the first teams to use active suspension in motorsport, developing it for Formula 1 where the need to control ride height was critically important for the ground effects ...
Lotus 114 (1996): Lotus Esprit GT1 race car; Lotus 115 (1997–1998): Lotus Elise GT1; Lotus 116: Opel Speedster/Vauxhall VX220, a collaboration with Opel; Lotus 117: Elise S2 with Rover engines [citation needed] Lotus 118: Lotus M250, two-seat mid-range sports car concept unveiled in Autumn of 1999, project cancelled in 2001
The Constructors Car Club was founded in 1988 to support those who had an interest in building cars from scratch, including kit cars. The club is member of the Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association (LVVTA), the body entrusted with New Zealand's modified and custom built vehicle certification system. [64]
Esprit: 79 supercar 1976 2004 Europa Europa S Eclat: 76 grand tourer 1975 1982 Excel Elite: 75 shooting brake: 1974 1982 Elan +2 Elan +2: 50 grand tourer 1967 1975 Elite Europa: 46 sports car 1966 1975 Esprit Elan: 26 sports car, roadster 1962 1973 Elite Esprit Elite: 14 sports car 1958 1963 Elan Seven: 7 roadster 1957 1973 Mark Six Mark Six: 6 ...
The car's development was extremely informal, and the cost for prototyping materials was estimated to only have been US$2000. [2] According to the Bradley newsletter the first production GT was delivered in September 1970. [1] The car was available in kit form in different levels of completeness, or as an assembled vehicle.