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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.
Lotus Mark I, 1948 Lotus Mark IX and Lotus 6 Lotus Eleven Lotus Elite Lotus Elan +2S, 1973 Lotus Europa S2 Lotus Eclat S2 Lotus Esprit V8, 1999 Lotus Elise S1 Lotus Elise GT1 Road Car, 1997 Lotus 340R Opel Speedster/Vauxhall VX220 (based on the Lotus Elise S2) Lotus Emira Lotus Eletre. Lotus Mark I (1948): Austin 7–based sports car
Modified from a Porsche 911 GT1, never raced, modified to an IMSA GTS car Harrier: LR9C: 1994 LMP2 Modified from road car sans roof [6] LR10: 2000 LMP900 HPD: ARX-01c: 2010 LMP2 Cars badged as HPD for 2010 season, previously Acura: ARX-01d: 2011 LMP2 ARX-01e: 2011 LMP1 Car only ran in 2011 12 Hours of Sebring before retirement ARX-01g: 2011 ...
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.
A few GT1 were entered in the LMGT1 class at the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans. [2] The GT1 cars continued to race in the World Championship in 2010 and 2011, but in 2012 the series switched exclusively to GT3 machinery due to shrinking car counts and the fact that most of the cars were ageing and no one was willing to build new 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 ...