This car competed in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.
It's Philip Walker's 1959 Lotus 16, a car designed to compete in both Formula 1 and Formula 2 races, the bodywork being designed by Frank Costin who was responsible for the aerodynamic body of the 1956 Vanwall. Philip Walker's car has a 2,495cc engine, presumably the 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax FPF unit. The Lotus 16 was campaigned by Lotus from 1958 till early 1960 when it was superseded by the Lotus 18, and its best result in that time was fourth place in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix driven by Innes Ireland. Eight cars were produced in that period, and it seems that this car is chassis #368.
On 3 September 2014 I showed a photograph of Philip Walker in this car at Oulton Park in 1996.
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