Lotus 51
The Lotus 51 was a Formula Ford racing car , built in 1967 by the British motorsport team Lotus .
The Lotus 51 became a best seller for Colin Chapman and the Lotus team in 1967 . 218 vehicles were built and sold (some sources, however, only speak of 150 vehicles). The price for a vehicle was £ 955 .
The car was based on the Lotus 31 , a Formula 3 vehicle from Lotus. The racing car was agile and fast, had a short wheelbase and was extremely light with a curb weight of 412 kg. In 1969 the car was replaced by the Lotus 61 . In 1968 the 51R - a one-off - was built. The car had wider side pods and was originally intended as a concept for a successor model. The car was sold for £ 1,095 to a US collector who never used the 51R in a racing competition.
literature
- David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
