This was one of the static displays at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 where 50 years of Formula One were celebrated.
It's a 1983 Lotus 92, a car that Nigel Mansell campaigned in the first half of the 1983 season, and the last car to be designed by Colin Chapman before he died in December 1982. The Lotus 92 had a 2,993cc Cosworth DFV engine but wasn't very successful, Nigel Mansell's best result being sixth place in the Detroit Grand Prix with three twelfth place finishes and four retirements. Nigel Mansell drove the Lotus 94T in all but one of the remaining Grand Prix races in 1983 with a bit more success, and drove in the Lotus 93T in the German Grand Prix but failed to finish. He finished in thirteenth place in the World Drivers' Championship that season.
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