This is a photograph that I took at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.
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It's the 1956 Lotus Eleven of
Neil Davies that competed in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race and which the programme of the event says has a 1,480cc engine. The Lotus Eleven was
designed by Colin Chapman and the aerodynamic body by Frank Costin and was
intended to compete in the 1,100cc sports car class. A Lotus Eleven with a
1,098cc Coventry Climax engine driven by Reg Bicknell and Peter Jopp finished
in seventh place in the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, winning the 1,100cc class.
The Lotus Eleven was raced with various other engine sizes up to 1,500cc, and
for the 1957 Le Mans 24 Hour Race Coventry Climax produced the 744cc FWC engine
that enabled the Lotus Eleven of Cliff Allison and Keith Hall to win the 750cc
class, and also the Index of Performance.
The number 22 car in the background
is Bernard Brock’s Formula Junior 1959 Elva 100.
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