I took this photograph in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.
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It's a 1958 Lotus Eleven Le
Mans, chassis 344, which was driven in the 90 minute Gentlemen Drivers GT and
Sports Endurance Race by Guy Peeters and Vincent Decoux and has a 1,498cc
engine. The Lotus Eleven was primarily designed to compete in the 1,100cc class
of racing, but competed with a variety of engines ranging from 750cc to
1,500cc. The Lotus Eleven Le Mans differed from the standard Lotus Eleven in
that it had a wider chassis frame in order to provide Le Mans regulation-width
seats, and cockpit and footwell minimum dimensions, but the overall width of
the bodywork was no different to the standard car.
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