1958 Lotus 16

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in June 1984.

It's the 1958 Lotus 16 of Simon Phillips which the programme of the event says has a 2,180cc engine , presumably the 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax unit. The Lotus 16 was raced by Team Lotus, and private entrants, from 1958 to 1960 with little success in World Championship races. Colin Chapman had to wait until the Monaco Grand Prix of 1960 for his first Lotus victory, achieved by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.