1962 Lotus 25

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '65 Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the 1962 Lotus 25 of Cedric Selzer with a 1,496cc V8 Coventry Climax FWMV engine that was driven in the race by Chris Alford. The Lotus 25 was raced by Jim Clark in the 1962 season but its initial unreliability leading to retirement in four of the races meant that he could only finish in second place to Graham Hill's BRM in that season's World Drivers' Championship. He won the Championship the following year though and finished in third place in 1964 driving the Lotus 25 in the early part of the season before switching to the Lotus 33 for the second half of the season. Cedric Selzer's car was rebuilt from the remains of Lotus 25 chassis R4 that was destroyed in a crash during practice for the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix when being driven by Trevor Taylor.