Cars designed and built specifically for automobile racing, both for mass races and for setting speed records. Unlike production sports cars for the road, racing cars have a maximally lightweight body, which lacks many important control and safety components. These cars are generally not allowed on public roads.
24 Hours of Le Mans 1962 Winner (331 laps, 4451.255 km). Racers: Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill.
In 1962 the original Series 1 Lotus Seven was rebuilt and converted to i.r.s. by the late Hugh Haskell, at the time a Lotus development engineer at Cheshunt. Colin Chapman provided the Lotus 20 suspension parts and the car became known as the Lotus 7/20. The original car had a B.M.C. engine but this was replaced with a Ford 105E Cosworth Formula Junior unit.
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