1959 Lotus 16

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre '60 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1959 Lotus 16 of Philip Walker and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,495cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. The first Grand Prix race for the Lotus 16 was the 1958 French Grand Prix where the car's 1,964cc Coventry Climax engine proved to be severely underpowered for the very fast Reims circuit and Graham Hill retired the car on lap 19 with an overheating engine. By 1959 the car was fitted with the 2,467cc Coventry Climax FPF engine, but the front-engined cars were now outclassed by the rear-engined ones and the Lotus 16 never achieved great success, the best efforts being Innes Ireland's fourth place in the Dutch Grand Prix and fifth place in the USA Grand Prix. Eight of the cars were built and Philip Walker's car is Chassis 368.

Lotus 16

This car competed in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's Philip Walker's 1959 Lotus 16, a car designed to compete in both Formula 1 and Formula 2 races, the bodywork being designed by Frank Costin who was responsible for the aerodynamic body of the 1956 Vanwall. Philip Walker's car has a 2,495cc engine, presumably the 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax FPF unit. The Lotus 16 was campaigned by Lotus from 1958 till early 1960 when it was superseded by the Lotus 18, and its best result in that time was fourth place in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix driven by Innes Ireland. Eight cars were produced in that period, and it seems that this car is chassis #368.

On 3 September 2014 I showed a photograph of Philip Walker in this car at Oulton Park in 1996.