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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 Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a non-profit [2] American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting Autocross, Rallycross, HPDE, Time Trial, Road Racing, and Hill Climbs in the United States. Formed in 1944, it runs many programs for both amateur and professional racers.
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.
It is proof of just how far ahead of the curve Lotus was in the early 1980s, but also a reminder of what a handsome car the wedgy Esprit Turbo is, especially when wearing the same black and gold ...
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
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.
The 1962 SCCA National Sports Car Championship season was the twelfth season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship. It began January 28, 1962, and ended September 22, 1962, after thirteen races.
With continuing success on through the Lotus 6, he began to sell kits of these cars. Over 100 were sold through 1956. Over 100 were sold through 1956. It was with the Lotus 7 in 1957 that things really took off, and indeed Caterham Cars still manufacture a version of that car today – the Caterham 7 ; there have been over 90 different Lotus 7 ...