This car competed in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's the 1957 Lotus Eleven Le Mans Series 2 of Malcolm Ricketts and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,460cc Coventry Climax FWB engine. The name of Cliff Allison is displayed on the side of this car, and Cliff Allison drove a Lotus Eleven at Le Mans in 1956 and 1957 - one like the above in 1956, but the 1957 car had a headrest. Colin Chapman would race the Lotus with three different engine sizes at Le Mans to contest the 750cc, 1,100cc or 1,500cc classes.
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