1987 Lotus 99T

This was one of the cars on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's a 1987 Lotus 99T, the car with which Ayrton Senna finished third in the World Drivers Championship. Renault had provided engines for Lotus since 1983, but after they pulled out of F1 at the end of the 1986 season the Lotus 99T was powered by a turbocharged 1,494cc V6 Honda engine. Ayrton Senna won three of the races that season, with four second and two third places. Senna's win in the Detroit Grand Prix was the last for the Lotus team, ending a run of victories that was started by Stirling Moss winning the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.