This car competed in the Flockhart Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.
It's Philip Walker's 1959 Lotus 16 with what the programme of the event says is a 2,495cc engine - presumably the 4-cylinder Coventry Climax FPF unit. The Lotus 16 was raced by Team Lotus, and private entrants, from 1958 to 1960 with little success in World Championship races. Colin Chapman had to wait until the Monaco Grand Prix of 1960 for his first Lotus victory, achieved by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.
On 3 September 2014 I showed a photograph of Philip Walker in this car at Oulton Park in 1996.
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