This car competed in the BRDC Historic Sports Car Championship Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.
It's the 1956 Lotus Eleven of
Malcolm Ricketts, which the programme of the event says has a 1,500cc engine. The
Lotus Eleven was a completely new car, unlike the previous production Lotuses,
the Mk VIII, Mk IX and Mk X which were all based on the Lotus Mk VI. The Eleven
had a steel tubular space-frame with stressed aluminium panels, and the
aerodynamic body was designed by Frank Costin and was hinged at both ends to give
complete access to the engine and other mechanical parts. The car was mainly
designed to run in the 1,100cc class of racing, but other engines of up to 2½
litres were also used.
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